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Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South
« on: March 07, 2018, 01:42:44 pm »
Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South
By Alexander Bolton - 03/06/18 08:32 PM EST

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) impending retirement has opened a new path for Tea Party firebrand Chris McDaniel to reach the Senate — a prospect that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) desperately wants to avoid.

McConnell and other Republican leaders are worried about a reprise of last year’s electoral debacle in Alabama, when another conservative insurgent, Roy Moore, capitalized on voters’ discontent with the Washington establishment to win the Republican primary, only to lose a Senate seat the GOP was expected to keep.

McConnell favored Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) appointing himself to fill the vacancy created by Cochran’s retirement, but that hope crumbled Tuesday when Bryant ruled it out. 

McConnell is also mulling the prospect of Bryant tapping Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves or Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn to replace Cochran, according to GOP sources familiar with internal party discussions.

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Re: Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2018, 01:49:33 pm »
Seems to me the headache source is McConnell and his leftist buddies, not Mississippi.
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Re: Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2018, 01:59:13 pm »
Remember back in the day when Senators represented their State, not their Party's leadership?
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Re: Mississippi is new headache for GOP in the South
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2018, 02:25:04 pm »

Now that Buddy Ebsen is retiring, will just about any of the possibles be better?

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