'McDaniel would've come up here and teamed up with Ted Cruz and been nothing but a troublemaker. We didn't need that.' Lobbyist former GOP Sen. Trent Lott

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6/30/14, "The Ruling Class Went Down to Mississippi," Angelo M. Codevilla

Dr. Codevilla on the 2014 Mississippi GOP primary

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12/4/14, "Lott: Mississippi delegation regaining influence," Clarion-Ledger, Deborah Barfield Berry, Washington Bureau

"In Mississippi, Lott said, GOP leaders are working to repair damage from GOP Sen. Thad Cochran's bruising re-election race against Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a tea party favorite who lost to Cochran in a GOP primary runoff....

Lott said McDaniel "would have come up here and teamed up with Ted Cruz and been nothing but a troublemaker. We didn't need that.''"... via Free Rep.

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What it cost the Establishment to beat us in the 2014 Mississippi GOP primary:

 











Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran campaign spending chart, OpenSecrets.org:





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