Analyst Kyle Kondik says at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, “In Mississippi, the Republican establishment is sweating bullets over genteel Senator Thad Cochran’s (R) bid for renomination against Tea Party state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R). We continue to lean the race to Cochran, and top Mississippi Republicans continue to insist he’ll win, but primaries can produce odd results.”
Tea Party groups are pouring money into Mississippi for campaign ads in support of McDaniel, says the Washington Post. It says a review by the Sunlight Foundation of election records found that “tea-party-aligned groups have spent nearly $2.4 million, compared with the $1.8 million that pro-Cochran groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have invested.”