As of midnight, only a pair of outside groups that had engaged in Mississippi commented on the result. FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe, whose group spent several hundred thousand dollars on turnout efforts for McDaniel, called the result there “disgraceful.”
“If the only way the K Street wing of the GOP establishment can win is by courting Democrats to vote in GOP primaries, then we’ve already won. Tonight is proof that the K Street establishment is intellectually bankrupt, and we are going to have to clean it up,” Kibbe said.
Conservative activist Brent Bozell, whose group ForAmerica ran online ads bashing Cochran, pooh-poohed Cochran for having to “squeak by against a previously little-known state senator thanks to the largesse of the Mississippi and Washington establishments.”
Politico
6/25/14
Magnolia Tribune
