Despite the talk of the Tea Party being a ‘busted flush’, the GOP faction is still going strong.
Originally posted on The Secular Jurist:
By Robert A. Vella
After 6-term incumbent Thad Cochran beat insurgent Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in Mississippi’s special runoff election to secure the Republican Party nomination for his U.S. Senate seat, the so-called “GOP Civil War” is really heating up. McDaniel has not conceded, and is vowing to “investigate” the legality of Black Democratic voters who rescued Cochran – at the senator’s request – from an almost certain electoral defeat (see: Chris McDaniel: Democratic votes for Thad Cochran were illegal).
Yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Dallas Tea Party leader Phillip Dennis got into a rather animated argument with Republican strategist John Feehery. He said the Tea Party was so angry that their supporters should either write-in McDaniel’s name on the November ballot or vote for the Democratic Party candidate Travis Childers instead (see: Tea party lashes out over Mississippi runoff).
What Dennis stated…
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