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McDaniel won on the primary election day but, due to a third candidate, did not quite attain 50% of the vote. In the subsequent run-off, many [[Democrat]] voters reportedly participated in the Republican primary for the benefit of Cochran, and on that basis he narrowly defeated McDaniel. | McDaniel won on the primary election day but, due to a third candidate, did not quite attain 50% of the vote. In the subsequent run-off, many [[Democrat]] voters reportedly participated in the Republican primary for the benefit of Cochran, and on that basis he narrowly defeated McDaniel. | ||
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Revision as of 18:49, July 15, 2014
Chris McDaniel is in his second term as a senator in the Mississippi state senate, and ran for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2014 against an entrenched incumbent, Thad Cochran. This became the highest profile challenge to an incumbent senator in the nation.
McDaniel won on the primary election day but, due to a third candidate, did not quite attain 50% of the vote. In the subsequent run-off, many Democrat voters reportedly participated in the Republican primary for the benefit of Cochran, and on that basis he narrowly defeated McDaniel.