Republican Senate primary drawing conservative groups from across the U.S.
In its final days, the race has become a bitter and ugly contest with relatively little attention paid to the policy differences between the two candidates. Instead, there has been name-calling on social media, racial tension and warnings about voter fraud from McDaniel supporters, who sense a tea party victory but fear that Cochran — with the backing of some Democrats — could survive.
The controversies are the latest in a campaign dominated by them, including four arrests last month after a McDaniel supporter took a picture of Cochran’s wife, Rose, who is in a nursing home.
On Sunday, the Cochran family again became a topic when the McDaniel campaign criticized Katherine Cochran — the incumbent’s daughter and a college professor — in response to a Facebook posting she published last week. In that missive, she called McDaniel’s campaign an effort “engineered to appeal to the very worst in our electorate.”
In its mocking rebuttal on Facebook, McDaniel’s campaign used the hashtag “Who’sYaDaddy?” under a black-and-white picture of her, drawing an angry response from Cochran’s spokesman, Jordan Russell, who called the phrase “appalling” and “further proof that [McDaniel] is unfit for office.”
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6/23/14
Magnolia Tribune
