Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said he hasn’t conceded to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) yet because 35,000 Democrats crossed over to vote in the runoff election for Cochran and claimed that it is illegal for voters to back one candidate in the primary but another in the general. McDaniel’s comments, which he made in an interview on Mark Levin’s radio show Wednesday night, follow a runoff election on Tuesday in which Cochran defeated McDaniel. McDaniel and his supporters have objected to the vote outcome because of Cochran’s efforts to get African Americans and Democrats to support the incumbent senator in the the Republican runoff. It’s not clear exactly where McDaniel got the 35,000 figure.
“Naturally sometimes it’s difficult to contest an election, obviously, but we do know that 35,000 Democrats crossed over,” McDaniel said. “And we know many of those Democrats did vote in the Democratic primary just three weeks ago which makes it illegal.”
Voters in Mississippi don’t register by party and the state has open primaries. Voters are only barred from voting in one party’s primary and then voting in another party’s runoff, but voters who didn’t vote in the initial primary are not barred from voting in a runoff election.
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