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Failed Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel confirmed Monday that he would challenge the results of June's runoff Republican primary in which he lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. And rather than call for a new election to address allegations of voter fraud, the state senator said he was instead asking the state GOP to simply declare him the winner.
McDaniel, who placed first in the initial round of voting but failed to win outright, has claimed since his defeat that the Cochran camp abetted election fraud and engaged in race baiting by urging black Democrats to back the senator. A fundraising pitch on McDaniel's website accuses Cochran and Democrats of rigging a "stolen election."
A lawyer for the McDaniel camp said Monday that they had identified 15,000 ballots that they believed should be tossed out, as well as thousands of other irregularities. All told, team McDaniel said it believed their candidate won by 25,000 votes. The official tally put Cochran up by about 7,000 votes.
http://theweek.com/article/index/265807/speedreads-tea-party-loser-in-mississippi-gop-primary-claims-he-actually-won-by-25000-votes
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)as a third party candidate.
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)Instead of asking for a new election, the idiot is asking to be named the winner. No court is going to do this
marmar
(77,081 posts)...... one of the tenets of Teabaggery.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Goin down kickin & screamin.
Like a toddler at bedtime
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)He believes he won by 25,000! He also believes in Santa Claus, Tinkerbell, and trickle down economics.
TlalocW
(15,383 posts)I think he probably did win, and if proving so ties up the GOP machine in Mississippi, well, that's just a consequence we'll have to take to get to the truth.
TlalocW
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Send money, too.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)You must be thinking of Jack.