scotty on thad -- >> you know, he was a good guy. >> reporter: like thad and michelle, they lived nexte thad, scotty was deeply religious and also a church volunteer leader. he was the volunteer family pastor, giving his time to tend to the young people of hollywood baptist. and scotty and paige had their own three small children, also all girls. >> our children were like best friends, and we would go out to eat with them, go to a movie. >> reporter: barbecues, volleyball, camping trips, prayer groups. thad and michelle, scotty and paige and all the kids together. the husbands, who'd first met when thad was divorced, became especially fast friends, the bible and scriptures their glue. thad thought so highly of scotty, he praised him in front of the congregation. >> our family pastor, official title now, scotty harper, has always taught the people that are under him and the kids that we need to teach them the things that are relevant to them these days. that's his keyword, right? relevant. how to minister to them right now with their lives. >> he was a good role model. >> reporter: thad

thad cochran is a conservative republican. he managed to get out democrats, many of them african americans, some moderate democrats and formed a coalition because they could cross over and vote for him in this republican primary which is kind of a quirk in this state. but if you look at the coalition he has established, and i'm a republican who wants to broaden the tent of the republican party, i'd be look agent that and saying, you know, that's a very interesting group that he has put together. and it's something that the republican party ought to consider as it heads into 2016. >> he did get some major dormants, dana. >> yes. >> john mccain came in and and campaigned on his behalf, right? >> john mccain came in and campaigned on his behalf, very much appealing to the military voters here, the veterans here. we've been talking a lot about african american voters. but one thing that we haven't talked about, which we should is union voters, other voters who are traditionally democratic voters. the cochran campaign and his suppo

thad cochran is 76 years old. thad cochran a slight lead.the vote, a slight lead as well. we'll watch both of these results. back to you. >> wolf blitzer, thank you very much. we'll see you soon. check back with wolf as soon as we get more results. >>> the world cup soccer match today between italy and uruguay. did you see this? luis suarez allegedly bit an oy point on the shoulder. greg lawless is the editor and chief of mls soccer.com. and amanda davies. never did i think i would be talking to you guys about someone biting someone on the soccer field. it was another huge day at the world cup in brazil today. and a major controversy involving the uruguayan striker luis suarez. he appeared to bite italian defender giorgio chiellini on the field. let's take a look at the shot and then we'll talk. >> oh, dear, oh. oh, dear, dear, dear. let's have another look. >> it looks to me, dare i say it, that he has had a little bite at chiellini. surely not again. surely not again. >> it's really not again. >> amanda, you were there. could there be repe

thad cochran's so-called fun. right? in this instance would be what he's doing to the sheep to make it baaa like that. yeah. so things are not going great for mississippi's incumbent republican senator thad cochran. because this is what his race is like right now. in the republican primary to hold on to his own seat in the senate, a few weeks ago senator cochran, of course, lost to his tea party challenger chris mcdaniel. tomorrow is the runoff in the race since neither of them cleared 50%. there is not great polling in the state. at least on this race. but everybody including senator thad cochran seems to recognize that farm animal jokes or no, he is in trouble in this race, so much so that thad cochran is now casting a net way beyond the usual republican electorate in mississippi and thad cochran is now trying to find votes wherever he can. the great state of mississippi has a higher percentage of african-american residents than any other state in the country. in 2012, the mississippi electorate was 36% black. highest

thad cochran, chris mcdaniel. 20% in. thad cochran with 54. 5% of the vote. mcdaniel behind him. this is only 1/35 so far. joining us, mr. hall from the "clarion" newspaper. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. glad to be here. >> obviously we only have early ru returns at this point. in terms of where you know the vote is in from and what you were anecdotally able to report on today, do you have any sense of how this race ended up going today with the national attention, three weeks of furious campaigning, how did it come down today? >> based on the results right now, it actually looks very much like it did three weeks ago which was the early results especially down on the coast, south, most of south mississippi with cochran leading. leading all the northeast mississippi except for a few pockets. so there are still some key areas that we're looking at to see what they do. still haven't gotten anything out of jones county which is mcdaniel's home. he just absolutely swamped cochran there and pulled out more votes from that county than i think they've ever had come out. that

thad cochran ran on i'm going to spend more money than anybody else. that's contrary to the tea party message. >> i can't think of how many times in the past few years i have heard conservatives rail about how terrible harry reid is. now i'm listening to a conservative say i would rather have a democrat elected and harry reid as leader. you listening to the voice from the base of a party are you listening to an example of why republican leaders in washington had their hands tied? every decision they risk a revolt. >> republicans are in a good decision to capture the senate. they can finally put legislation on the president's desk to have him sign or spirit. hopefully reveal a big chunk of obamacare. it won't happen if harry reid continues as majority leader. he was the one who wanted to make barack obama president. he's been uncooperative. i understand how upset they are. they lost, they're mad. barack obama will have a blank check the last two years and we don't need that. >> i want to ask you one more thing. this is the question i have. i think glenn

without thad cochran, we could lose some of these important facilities. ins is really about jobs south mississippi and security of our country. senator cochran has the experience and the power to protect the gulf coast. >> i'm thad cochran and i approve this message. >> domenico montanaro, this is in stark contrast to the tea party that said government is too big. you have a veteran republican running for reelection. duringlection was 1978 the carter administration. >> i think this will be a key election to see whether or not that kind of message -- whether you can bring home the bacon -- can still resonate, especially in a state like mississippi where they rely on a lot of government funding. i talked to haley barbour right after cochran fell behind and wound up going into that runoff. he says we need to remind people that even democrats in the state who can vote, because it is an open primary, that chris mcdaniel, the tea party opponent, is against federal funding for education. the problem for them is, is the republican base, is the republican party at

but thad cochran, if you were the same age as thad, we were one-year-old babies in our cribs when thad cochrans went to washington, and now we're old 43-year-olds who may be sitting on the anchor desk when he goes out. >> that's a good sign looking at the turnout numbers. he has been trying over the last few weeks, to put together a coalition. some of them may be democrats, some of them may be moderate republicans. some may be independent. anybody can vote in mississippi's special election runoff primary here, except the 86,000 democrats who voted in the june 3rd democratic primary. and basically cochran is trying to tap into all of those folks to say, hey, listen, i can take care of bringing federal spending back to mississippi. and it is so interesting to see this battle, because on the other side, state senator chris mcdaniel is saying, we don't need more federal spending, we need less. he's obviously the tea party favorite. >> explain to us why this is the republican primary runoff. i mean, normally not the lead story on the fox news channel at 9:00 p.m., even on an election primar

we had in ap call that thad cochrane wins this race. thad cochrane has won a run off. improbable you turn for the political fortunes of thad cochran, who everyone had written off. he battled to essentially a tie in the june 3rd primary and has now come from behind. he has beaten the odds to be on the ballot, come this far for a seventh turn. robert, is the reaction in the room right now? >> the room is not yet know. they are not putting it on the board yet. the ap has called it. here they are still looking intently at the board hoping. >> this is -- the recriminations from this are going to be nuclear. you are talking about the absolute third real -- third rail of american politics that this is happening in the state. it republican incumbent managing to court these black voters to come out. that will be the story tea party activists will be talking about in the weeks and months after this. >> yeah, and so things we will be looking for is, does it engaged them in other races, possibly? there are still places where they can out incumbents from independent challenges. thi

chairman steele there is a lot of finger pointing at thad cochran.houldn't there be a self-reflection among the chris mcdaniel campaign? >> god forbid we should do that and try to figure out exactly what happened. the what happened was that thad cochran went back to a space where he should have started and been comfortable with all along, that's with the voters. this is a man who has had a long career, built a relationship with the african-american community. surprising he's a guy who's out there talking about and fighting for hcbus in the state of mississippi and talking about the poor and forgotten in terms of how we make federal dollars that come back into the state work best for them. now, for a lot of conservatives today, that's an enaj ma but it wasn't in the bygone era of the early 1980s and early 1990s. he remembered that. and he went to that well and guess what, the black vote was there for him because they remembered the thad cochran who had been there for them. that should be the lesson taken from this race, for african-americans and for t

doesn't thad cochran know there's no "i" in mississippi. and this was no accident, folks.ade a deal with the devilcrats, who teamed with the mississippi conservative pac to do get out the vote work and rally african american voters. those democrats, bishop ronnie crudup, sr., and james scooby-doo warren. rut roh! and, folks, i'm telling you, and mcdaniels would have won this race,, too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. [laughter] i guess what i'm trying say is, when did black people start voting? when we return, i'll sit down with one of the people responsible for black people voting in mississippi, representative eleanor holmes norton. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] andy williams singing "it's the most wonderful tim]" ♪ it's the most wonderful time... ♪ of th♪ ♪ ding dong ... ding dong... ♪ ♪ ...with those holiday greetings.... ♪ ♪ ...and gay happy meetings when... ♪ ♪ ...friends come to call... ♪ ♪ ...it's the most wonderful time... ♪ ♪ ...yes the most wonderful time... ♪ ♪ ... of the year! come to mcdonald's and play peel. play. olé olé. you could win ex

in fact, that has ended up being what thad cochran is running on to try to hold on to his senate seat now in what is turning out to be the race of his life. >> mississippi gets $1.5 billion in federal education funding. chris mcdaniel says he's end that because education is not in the constitution. how do we make up the gap? your property taxes go up. mcdaniel opposes the highway bill. we lose half our road budget. result? higher gas taxes, worse roads. no wonder every statewide elected official exposes chris mcdaniel. >> i'm thad cochran and i approve this message because mississippi is worth fighting for. >> do not adjust your tv set. you really did just hear a conservative republican elected official campaigning on the idea that government spending is good for you. and we need it. and it's important for the stuff that we want and need and that drives our economy. that could be an unexpected message in most states. mississippi, it might as well snowing on the fourth of july. a democratic pollster in mississippi tells the "washington post" today, "democrats are sitting here scratchin

doesn't thad cochran know there's no "i" in mississippi. and this was no accident, folks. a deal with the devilcrats, who teamed with the mississippi conservative pac to do get out the vote work and rally african american voters. those democrats, bishop ronnie crudup, sr., and james scooby-doo warren. rut roh! and, folks, i'm telling you, and mcdaniels would have won this race,, too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. [laughter] i guess what i'm trying say is, when did black people start voting? when we return, i'll sit down with one of the people responsible for black people voting in mississippi, representative eleanor holmes norton. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] [ beep ] oh, hey jim, this is my sister, lisa. [ jim ] mmmmm. so, hot. whoo! mmmmm. that is hot! [ male announcer ] made with real cheese and premium cuts of meat. [ ding! ] ♪ hot pockets! >> stephen: my guest tonight is my arch nemesis. please welcome congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. [cheering and applause] congresswoman, thank you so much for coming. good to see you again. you and i have bee

thad cochrane, 51%. mcdaniel -- if things hold, it would be an improbable return of fortune for fat cochrane, whose political obituary was being written in the wake of the june 3rd primary in which cochran failed to clear 50%. everyone is supposed that it would be a mcdaniel victory. that is because everyone figured tonight's election would be a lower turnout affair. they were wrong on that. the total votes cast so far have already exceeded that amount that is in the june 3rd primary. that cochrane clinging to a 2% lead with 97% of precincts in, 179,000 votes. that is going to be somewhat difficult for mcdaniel to overcome, although this race has proven surprising all the way through. turning now, christina, editor in chief from roll call. robert costello live in mississippi. he is in the chris mcdaniel headquarters. can i go to first, what is the atmosphere in the room like? >> okay, we don't have him yet. christina, this race has been so bitterly fought all the way through. it was a razor-thin margin j

it's thad cochran, coooooooochran!ed mcdaniel, who won the initial primary but not by enough to avoid a run-off. so how did cochran beat him? >> cochran relied on black democrats to put him over the top. >> jon: that's right. thad cochran won the mississippi republican primary because of the support of black democrats. before you jump to the conclusion that black democrats think very highly of thad cochran, rent -- let me give you just a taste of his opponent, mcdaniel. >> chris mcdaniel apparently said there's no place for federal funding of schools here in mississippi. >> if they pass reparations and my taxes go up, i ain't paying taxes. >> mcdaniel has already keynoted a neo-confederate event. he's retweeted white supremacists. >> jon: well, now, in mcdaniel's defense, the white supremacist's twitter account had some extremely cute cat videos. ah. hey, everybody, look. everybody, it's kitler. you know, you'll always be meow fuhrer. clearly mcdaniel's candidacy caused a great deal of concern in mississippi's african

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doesn't thad cochran know there's no "i" in mississippi. and this was no accident, folks.ochran made a deal with the devilcrats, who teamed with the mississippi conservative pac to do get out the vote work and rally african american voters. those democrats, bishop ronnie crudup, sr., and james scooby-doo warren. rut roh! and, folks, i'm telling you, and mcdaniels would have won this race,, too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. [laughter] i guess what i'm trying say is, when did black people start voting? when we return, i'll sit down with one of the people responsible for black people voting in mississippi, representative eleanor holmes norton. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] [ male announcer ] are your party foods a party fail? have o'hare party repair remove them. and install tostitos cantina chips and salsa. guaranteed to bring that south of the border je ne sais quoi to any occasion! tostitos. bring the party. they like to put a.1. on pork but not beans. they also like to sit on the same side of the booth. you don't have to like everything the mctaggarts

that's made people bring home the bacon like thad cochran very popular.n primary, which is along the ideological debates, it's a vulnerability. now, the practical impact of it? people want their cake and they want to eat it, too, you know. the conservative populists want to rail against deficit spending but get those dollars in to keep local tax rates low. does it compute? no. does that matter emotionally on a primary? not in a way that benefits thad cochran, necessarily. >> so, for us, does that mean voters don't realize how federal money helps their own state? >> well, in fairness to the voters, it's not always clear that the money helps those states in the long run. mississippi, as john says, has been getting much more money from the federal government than it takes in, and yet, it's still an underdeveloped and, you know, high-poverty, low-education, all the rest state. and there are actually some interest research suggesting that these kind of pork barrel projects do, in fact, as conservatives would argue, tend to crowd out private investment and ulti

doesn't thad cochran know there's no "i" in mississippi. and this was no accident, folks. cochran made a deal with the devilcrats, who teamed with the mississippi conservative pac to do get out the vote work and rally african american voters. those democrats, bishop ronnie crudup, sr., and james scooby-doo warren. rut roh! and, folks, i'm telling you, and mcdaniels would have won this race,, too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. [laughter] i guess what i'm trying say is, when did black people start voting? when we return, i'll sit down with one of the people responsible for black people voting in mississippi, representative eleanor holmes norton. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. all aboard. rolo. get your smooth on. how cool is it that new lets us create our own pizza. and use delicious digiorno toppings like pepperoni, sausage, onions, and my favorite - red and green peppers. and we made it look just like... billy?! (laughter) (laughing) we made billy. i don't see it. new digiorno design a pizza kit has

he was in the runoff from thad cochran.tal evidence thatted th ed ththat t helped by democratic voters. the lesser of two evils. as we do know, african-americans do vote heavily for democrats. that's why we saw mcdaniel very upset by that. >> it doesn't sound like mcdaniel is exactly conceding in that speech, and neither is charlie rangel's opponent, espaillat in new york. very close race, yeah? >> very close race. north of where you two sit right now, charlie rangel, longtime member of the house of representatives, fighting off, or appears to have fought off another challenger from a state senator as well. adrianna espaillat. charlie rangel saying he was the victor. >> did you consider waiting to concede before declaring victory, why declare now? >> it hit my mind, the frustration of all of these people in a hot room and the vote was so close, when it reached a point, that i was more concerned about them and the press than i was about anything else. >> and there you have it. charlie rangel last night saying in fact he is t

these are people that voted for thad cochran over the years. he's been in the senate for 36 years but haven't had to do so in a republican primary. big picture despite the nastiness and bizarre nature of the race. it has been really the place for the republican party to battle out what we've seen over the past two election cycles, the concept whether it should be an establish the or anti income want fever. >> we'll check back with you. >>> iraq, 90 american military advisors arriving there today joining 40 on the groundworking with an army widely viewed as ineffective and a new estimate says is growing and support of a central government that needs to unify but so far has not. after meeting with top iraqi leaders, secretary of state john kerry was optimistic. he spoke with jim shutto. >> i'm not taking anything i hear from the bank and saying wow, it's going to be solved but i'm hearing things that indicate to me if they follow through on the things they are saying, there is a capacity to have a new government that could be a unity government,

the race between tea party-backed chris mcdaniel and 42-year incumbent thad cochran has been one of the most bizarre and intensely fought races in the country. you may remember that four mcdaniel supporters were arrested for photographing the ailing wife of senator cochran. now a staffer on the cochran campaign has been arrested this time for allegedly destroying or stealing mcdaniel campaign signs. the latest poll conducted by a democratic firm has mcdaniel up over cochran. and now the mcdaniel camp is preparing to send in poll watchers, a tact republicans used to intimidate black voters in the south for decades. the justice department will be monitoring the situation. >>> the united states has reached a key legal agreement with iraq to protect the 300 special operations forces currently deployed there. the pentagon announced monday that the military advisers would not be prosecuted under iraqi law. as part of the deal, the advisers would be protected by diplomatic immunity, similar to what embassy staff are entitled to. as the crisis escalates, here at home, there seems to be growing

senator thad cochran did this very successfully in this last race.nd yet there seems to be a significant section of the republican party that is none too pleased with it. >> what they were trying to do, their issues, they were trying to ride a tiger called the tea party and make friends with the villagers all at the same time. and at a certain point you realize, hey, if i keep riding this tiger i'm going to end up inside it. that's what happened to eric cantor and that was what was about to happen to cochran. at that point you say it's time to get off the tiger go make friends with the villagers and survive. and that's what he did. >> john, i love that analogy. and i love this strategy. i think it's really exciting and i love that african-american voters in mississippi said, you know what? this primary run-on is where the election is likely to be decided and we want to have a voice. it's also quite ingenious and revolutionary for a republican candidate, challenged from the right to actually move left and win, rather than running as far right as he ca

thad cochran is essentially running on that.fact he's brought home those dollars you see right there to mississippi. now you have chris mcdaniel really using that against him and using a black person to do it. what do you make of that? >> well, it's definitely not a new strategy. there's nothing new under the sun, so to speak, joy. i think the larger problem is this. mississippi has the largest black electorate if you look at the exit polls from 2012. the fact that any candidate waited to engage the black demographic of mississippi or anywhere else in this country until it was time for a run-off is highly problematic. the other challenge with that particular strategy, joy, is this. the folks who are most likely to be engaged in any type of electoral politics if they're black and democrat, they already voted in the original primary for the democrats. so they're not eligible to vote in the gop run-off today. so that's the real issue here. i think more over, is it true thad cochran has done more than some of the other conservative

it was thad cochran. it was no rush limbaugh. >> interesting.point dana bash made and she's been down in the state covering this. >> ari, i want to give you the last word on an interesting subject. >> house speaker john boehner said they'll sue the president on the executive issue. >> president obama is not the first guy to use executive orders and so far he's used less than your boss, president george w. bush. do you think this is a good idea? >> partially, yes. >> i'm a big fan of a vigorous president and he uses the powers of what he can get done and that includes the use of executive orders, the one that bothers me the most is where where they didn't implement the law sore just said it doesn't count anymore and they'll push back extensions and deadlines and this to me is a troubling issue. the law of the land is the law of the land and the president does have to obey it. >> he's not breaking any law. >> hold on now. the other one that he did -- >> well, don't lie. >> and there was make recess appointments. these are congressional prerogative

>> thad cochran. >> did you vote in the june primary?> i did not. >> what made you today vote for senator cochran? >> i've known him all my life. >> reporter: i've talk to those voters in heinz county. that's where i am right now. it's where the state capital is. this county put out 7,000 more votes for thad cochran in the run-off than on the primary day. he won by 6,000 votes. mcdaniel did get more votes as well but it just shows you how critical the county is which in those particular areas which is largely african-american to thad cochran doing so well. >> the question now is will he remember these african-american voters when he begins his new term? >> that's a really great question, carol. thad cochran, has been in the snot for over 30 years, has always avoided the spotlight. behind the scenes operator, an appropriator. you have to think that the republican establishment led by cochran, the barber family, down in mississippi, really made such an effort to court these african-american voters that maybe possibly he can go back to the

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thad cochran didn't. is it a surprise?me in "morning joe" history. you go back to 1947, that never happened. all three of us said the way that republican primaries and runoffs work, thad cochran didn't have a chance. i'm stunned. >> just echoing what eugene said, really a great victory for hailey barbour and the whole of the mississippi establishment world that rallied around cochran. saw the warning when the runoff was going to happen, they all flooded down there and pulled it back together for him. >> let's talk about that. the mississippi runoff defied conventional wisdom about getting out to vote. where did those new voters come from? the cochran campaign got help from some big names, like the barbours who helped turn out voters in strong cochran areas. cochran supporters actively sought out african-american democrats making the argument that cochran had delivered for mississippi. it appears to have worked. several heavily african-american communities saw major jumps in turnout, all favoring cochran. cochran increased

thad cochran desperate to hold on and win another term.ng to upset cochran and it was believed the tea party support would get the conservatives out. both of them did get, it looks like, the votes out. and turnout is really high in the special election, really quickly, new york, charlie rangel is hanging on right now, still early, 36% in. espaillat is a challenger, dominican born, the district has changed around charlie rangel. he could lose this he's trying to get a 23rd term in congress. >> do we know anything about the 5% of the vote that is out in mississippi tonight? >> it's tough to say, jones county is where chris mcdaniel is from. he won jones county overwhelmingly. just a small part of jones county still out. it's believed he's tapped those votes. as far as the interior of jackson, overwhelmingly thad cochran support. desoto county is the question mark, and there are five different precincts there that could be big deciders. >> thanks. special report each week night, 6:00 eastern on fox. the man who just won the gop senate race in

>> thad cochran. >> reporter: did you vote in the actual primary?i did not. >> reporter: so why did you come and vote in the runoff? >> because i feel like the man can do the job for us here. >> reporter: who did you vote for? >> senator cochran. >> reporter: did you vote in the june 3rd primary? >> i did not. >> reporter: dana bash in mississippi. let's hit pause and talk to john avlon, editor in chief, super duper smart guy. we can talk all we want about irony here. but let's just begin with sheer numbers. the real question is, did these liberal democrats, as chris mcdaniel calls them, did these liberal democrats win that republican runoff for thad cochran? >> reporter: well, brooke, you know, when mcdaniel said liberal democrats, what he meant was african-americans. and we do know from the turnout that african-american turnout was astronomical. over 40% in a predominantly african-american counties. so that approach, by the cochran campaign to look at this runoff as an opportunity to expand the map, with a massive get out the vote effort and go be

>> thad cochran. >> reporter: have you ever voted in a republican primary before? >> i have not. >> i guess they can take some consolation in the fact that they did something tonight, by once compromising, but once again reaching across the aisle and once again abandoning the conservative movement. >> reporter: observers were sent to the polls fearing improprietary from the other side which did not materialize. in the end it was just over 6,000 votes that separated the two. >> we all have a right to be proud of our state tonight. thank you very much. thank you for this wonderful honor. >> reporter: chris and kate, because it was not just a few hundred votes, even 1,000 vote, it appears 6,000 votes that cochran does appear to be winning by, or maybe have won by, that's why cochran aides i talked to say that they feel pretty comfortable, really comfortable in this win, despite the threats or even suggestions by chris mcdaniel that he's going to challenge this. in talking to mcdaniel leading into the primary or the runoff, i should say, he was already laying the groun

senator thad cochran. welcome home sergeant bowe bergdahl a grateful america thanks you for your service. and then america no longer grateful for your service. stephen lynch, same thing. great to hear that bowe bergdahl has been released from captivity. warmest regards to his family. ah but then as of this morning, delete. no more warm regards for you. warm regards hereby rescinded. congressman lynch doesn't want any one to know that he once thought it was good news that the service member was released. he's hoping that one goes down the memory hole. tonight, the u.s. special envoy for after gap stan and pakistan and other white house officials walked over to capitol hill and did a rare briefing for the full united states senate on the administration's actions to end sergeant bergdahl's captivity and get him home. that briefing was closed to the public. no cameras were allowed inside. but we were told that one of the things that senators were allowed to see that nobody had seen what we're told is that sena

thad cochran, chris mcdaniel.an is the incumbent, mcdaniel running against him saying he's been there too long, a pork barrel democrat. he's not critical enough of senator cochran against president obama. thad cochran is saying look around, look at all the money i've brought home, look at the courthouses, the highways. he's actually campaigning on his experience and his ability to bring the pork home. interesting to watch here, do the tea party voters turn out again? the primary was just three weeks ago and senator cochran has been trying to get african-americans, mostly democrats, to come vote for him. another race with a tea party edge to it is in oklahoma. tom coburn is retiring a bit early because he's battling cancer. james langford is a republican, t.w. shannon on the right. these are both conservatives. but the tea party forces have gone with speaker shannon. if he were to win this nomination, then win in november, that would make two african-american republicans in the senate. close to where you are out in

were you there for john mccain's speech and his endorsement of thad cochran? >> guest: my colleague attended that event yesterday because i was working the day before a 14 hour day down in gulfport t to cover the candidates. >> host: bad cochran has emphasized this and survive as. is one of those and then we'll come back to get your thoughts. >> i'm thad cochran. this election is about mississippi's tomorrow. as your united states senator i can d be more for mississippi. >> our aerospace industry, shipbuilding, military bases, research and development, agricultural breakthroughs, thad cochran's strong leadership makes it happen. he's a powerful voice for our state. let's keep him working for us. >> i'm thad cochran at i approved this message because mississippi is worth fighting for. >> host: emily wagster pettus is was the associate press mississippi political reporter. do we know where thad cochran is going to be today and chris mcdaniel as well? >> guest: thad cochran after he voted on saturday, so does that have to do that today, he will be out among suppo

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the democrats will steal this republican primary for thad. unsless you helps us turn out your friends. an accusation of stealing the election on a day we are seeing poll watchers, this fight gets uglier by the day. doesn't it, michelle? >> indeed, it does. this language is a two-for for the mcdaniel campaign. it suggests that thad cochran is such a liberal squish that democrats will line up to help him out. tries to delegitimize him. it's an emotional rhetoric that gets people to the polls and in run-off elections it's whoever has the most motivated base. >> kacie, big turnout, small? can you tell by where the turnout is who might be favored by that? >> at this point, i have thad cochran supporters saying they feel good about the turnout for them. they are looking for a turnout of voters who didn't show up three weeks ago. i have heard from sources that they think african-american turnout might be up in a few locations. not 100%. or at least they are not 100% sure how high the turnout is. at this point they are optimistic about the people the

so the turnout issue is bad news for thad cochran.e bad news for thad cochran is that one of the anti-tea party republican groups, that helped him in his race so far, that helped him against chris mcdaniels, it's karl rove's american crossroads group, they announced today they are pulling out of mississippi, essentially abandoning thad cochran now when he most needs them, even though they helped him before. but the third thing to know here is that democrats are psyched, or psyched for mississippi, about the prospect of not running against incumbent senator, thad cochran, who would surely be re-elected in the general election. they're psyched to have the prospect of running against this tea party guy instead. today, politico.com reported that private democratic polling has shown that the democratic nominee, former congressman, travis childers, would start a general election statistically tied against mcdaniel. a race against thad cochran, though, who's well liked by independents and many democrats, that race would be difficult for demo

senator thad cochran won with almost 51% of the vote. cochran's margin of victory over mcdaniel was more than 6,000 votes. some of those votes came from african-american democrats wooed by thad cochran's campaign, and the republican party, which has spent $23 million this election cycle defending republicans from within their party, from tea party challengers like mcdaniel. mcdaniel was backed by freedom works, one of the largest tea party groups. and today, the president of freedom works released a statement. it's disgraceful that self-described gop leaders like mitch mcconnell, john mccain, the chamber of commerce and the nrsc would champion a campaign platform of pork barrel spending and insider deal making while recruiting democrats to show up at the polls. if the only way the k street wing of the gop establishment is win is by courting democrats to vote in gop primaries, then we've already won. the associated press had not even declared mcdaniel a loser before sarah palin said this last night. >> you had considered moving third part