in the campaign right now. they believe he will wait to the sum and perhaps make an argument he could be someone like bush and walker who could appeal to the party. the late summer announces seem dangerous to me. fred thompson one of them may be a workout. it s interesting that robert says that. kasich has been the one i ve been usaing on paper for a year makes a lot of sense to me. perry, you did some reporting this week kasich getting a cold reception for some of the people he might need. there was a big dinner here of wednesday of conservative activists. the reception was not great for kasich. one thing is he s been a strong defender of medicaid. he expanded medicaid in ohio. he s been part of obamacare. he s been talking about how basically wrapping it all in with his faith and saying i m a christian, this is something i do for the poor. and conservatives are not excited about expanding obamacare in the first place, they re really not excited about being kasich s implication
walker. it s been a rough about six weeks ago people looked up and said holy cow this guy is challenging jeb bush. he s had self-inflicted wounds since then. perry tweeted this that scott walker who used to take questions for umthe press is sending staff written readouts of his events. scott walker is a curious one to me. i started saying i ve been looking at this opening that exists here for a non-bush candidate. scott walker will check all the boxes. he went to war with unions and we won. he can also say i ve run in wisconsin, in this blue state and i ve run three times. i know folks from wisconsin, deep ipwisconsin politics they re like please once we start to open up this guy s closet he will fall apart. you talk about grumpy old men. republicans love macho. is scott walker really macho,ther type of man we see republicans fall in love so? i don t think jeb is that guy
thad cochran is in real danger of losing his u.s. senate seat tomorrow. in a runoff with a tea party challenger whose name is chris mcdaniel. it has been a very weird race to say the least. farm animals and all. but this weekend, after national reports followed local mississippi reports that the cochran campaign was targeting black democratic voters in mississippi to cross party lines and vote for thad cochran in tomorrow s runoff, national conservative groups announced they would be deploying poll watchers, some from mississippi, some from out of state to go into the state of mississippi tomorrow and effectively stand guard. over mostly democratic and mostly, therefore, black precincts during tomorrow s voting. they re calling it a voter integrity project. i can think of other things to call it, too. joining us from jackson, mississippi, perry bacon jr. perry, thanks very much for being here. pleasure to have you here.
it has been a very weird race to say the least. farm animals and all. but this weekend, after national reports followed local mississippi reports that the cochran campaign was targeting black democratic voters in mississippi to cross party lines and vote for thad dock ron in tomorrow s runoff, national conservative groups announced they would be deploying poll watchers, some from mississippi, some from out of state to go into the state of mississippi tomorrow and effectively stand guard. over mostly democratic and mostly, therefore, black precincts during tomorrow s voting. they re calling it a voter integrity project. i can think of other things to call it, too. joining us from jackson, mississippi, perry bacon jr. perry, thanks very much for being here. pleasure to have you here. thanks, rachel. of course. let me ask you about this sort of it s been a wild ride this whole race. there s been a late turn in the national news about this race
to have, each campaign can have one person designated in the polling, in the precinct and that s it. they re trying to lay out pretty quickly that this is not something they expect. day are concerned and trying to address that. the second thing i would say is i asked mcdaniel about this a few minutes ago, a couple hours ago about the poll watchers. he told me was, quote, we just want to make sure this election is fair. and i try to follow up. he kind of stopped me there. he did not disavow the poll watchers at all. at the same time i should note it s not his campaign doing it, senate conservatives fund are bringing the poll watchers. they re not supposed to coordinate legally, at least. perry, in terms of what s expected with turnout and basically the conducting of the election, obviously mississippi has its new voter i.d. law that s going to be in effect for this race tomorrow. that s going to be a change. there is going to be apparently