Chris McDaniel isn’t ready to quit. Rather, channeling an inner John Paul Jones, he has just begun to fight.
McDaniel, a two-term Mississippi state senator, alleges thousands of votes were cast illegally for Thad Cochran by Democrats who crossed over during the June 24 Republican runoff for U.S. Senate, which Cochran, the incumbent, won.
The challenger wants a new round of voting. Like Jones, he won’t surrender, so don’t even ask.
Jones fought the British seeking to rule the seas. McDaniel, in what is arguably the hottest political contest in the country, wants Mississippi.
He’s not fighting alone.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called Monday for a “vigorous investigation” into the alleged fraud on the radio show of conservative host
Mark Levin.
“What happened in Mississippi was appalling,”
Cruz said on Levin’s show. “The conduct of the Washington, D.C., machine in the Mississippi runoff was incredibly disappointing. The ads they ran were racially charged false attacks, and there were explicit promises to continue and expand the welfare state.
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