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Chris McDaniel
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Republican Party

Prior offices
Mississippi State Senate District 42
Successor: Robin Robinson
Elections and appointments
Last election

August 8, 2023

Personal
Birthplace
Laurel, Miss.
Religion
Christian: Baptist
Profession
Attorney
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Chris McDaniel (Republican Party) was a member of the Mississippi State Senate, representing District 42. He assumed office in 2008. He left office on January 2, 2024.

McDaniel (Republican Party) ran for election for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. He lost in the Republican primary on August 8, 2023.

Biography

Chris McDaniel was born in Laurel, Mississippi.[1][2] McDaniel's career experience includes working as an attorney and partner with Hortman, Harlow, Bassi, Robinson, and McDaniel, PLLC.[1]

Elections

2023

See also: Mississippi lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2023

General election

General election for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

Incumbent Delbert Hosemann defeated D. Ryan Grover in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on November 7, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Delbert Hosemann
Delbert Hosemann (R)
 
60.7
 
490,956
Image of D. Ryan Grover
D. Ryan Grover (D) Candidate Connection
 
39.3
 
317,347

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 808,303
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

D. Ryan Grover advanced from the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on August 8, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of D. Ryan Grover
D. Ryan Grover Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
182,061

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3

Total votes: 182,061
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

Incumbent Delbert Hosemann defeated Chris McDaniel and Tiffany Longino in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on August 8, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Delbert Hosemann
Delbert Hosemann
 
52.1
 
198,979
Image of Chris McDaniel
Chris McDaniel
 
42.6
 
162,708
Image of Tiffany Longino
Tiffany Longino Candidate Connection
 
5.3
 
20,143

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 381,830
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Endorsements

McDaniel received the following endorsements.

2019

See also: Mississippi State Senate elections, 2019

General election

General election for Mississippi State Senate District 42

Incumbent Chris McDaniel won election in the general election for Mississippi State Senate District 42 on November 5, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Chris McDaniel
Chris McDaniel (R)
 
100.0
 
15,728

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 15,728
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Mississippi State Senate District 42

Incumbent Chris McDaniel advanced from the Republican primary for Mississippi State Senate District 42 on August 6, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Chris McDaniel
Chris McDaniel
 
100.0
 
12,872

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 12,872
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2018

See also: United States Senate special election in Mississippi, 2018

General runoff election

Special general runoff election for U.S. Senate Mississippi

Incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Mike Espy in the special general runoff election for U.S. Senate Mississippi on November 27, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Cindy Hyde-Smith
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
 
53.6
 
486,769
Image of Mike Espy
Mike Espy (D)
 
46.4
 
420,819

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 907,588
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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General election

Special general election for U.S. Senate Mississippi

Incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy advanced to a runoff. They defeated Chris McDaniel and Tobey Bartee in the special general election for U.S. Senate Mississippi on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Cindy Hyde-Smith
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
 
41.2
 
389,995
✔
Image of Mike Espy
Mike Espy (D)
 
40.9
 
386,742
Image of Chris McDaniel
Chris McDaniel (R)
 
16.4
 
154,878
Image of Tobey Bartee
Tobey Bartee (Nonpartisan)
 
1.5
 
13,852

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 945,467
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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2015

See also: Mississippi State Senate elections, 2015

Elections for the Mississippi State Senate took place in 2015. A primary election was held on August 4, 2015, and the general election was held on November 3, 2015. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was February 27, 2015.[3] Johnny Henry was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Chris McDaniel was unopposed in the Republican primary. McDaniel defeated Henry in the general election.

Mississippi State Senate, District 42 General Election, 2015
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngChris McDaniel Incumbent 85.8% 12,489
     Democratic Johnny Henry 14.2% 2,065
Total Votes 14,554

2014

See also: United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2014
U.S. Senate, Mississippi Runoff Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngThad Cochran Incumbent 51% 194,932
Chris McDaniel 49% 187,265
Total Votes 382,197
Source: Mississippi Secretary of State - Official Republican runoff primary results
U.S. Senate, Mississippi Republican Primary, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngChris McDaniel 49.5% 157,733
Green check mark transparent.pngThad Cochran Incumbent 49% 156,315
Thomas Carey 1.5% 4,854
Total Votes 318,902
Source: Mississippi Secretary of State - Official Republican primary results

2011

See also: Mississippi State Senate elections, 2011

McDaniel won re-election to the Mississippi Senate District 42. He ran unopposed in the primary on August 2, 2011. No candidates ran in the Democratic primary. McDaniel won the general election on November 8, 2011, unopposed.[4]

2007

See also: Mississippi State Senate elections, 2007
Mississippi Senate, District 42
Candidates Votes Percent
Chris McDaniel (R) 10,261 60.9%
Martin Beech (D) 6,596 39.1%

Campaign themes

2023

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2019

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2018

Campaign website

“ CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Chris wrote the 'Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2013' that protects students’ right to express religious belief individually and separately from public school endorsement. The bill requires a disclaimer to be provided at graduation ceremonies and other situations that allows students to engage in religious free speech. This important legislation was signed into law.

NATIONAL SECURITY Chris authored a bill that makes terrorism a crime punishable by death in a state court. The legislation adds an aggravated factor that makes it easier to impose the death penalty in state courts in cases of terrorism. This legislation was signed into law.

IMMIGRATION Chris wrote and introduced the Employment Protection Act in 2008, signed into law. Also known as the E-Verify law, it requires all Mississippi companies to use an Internet-based system to check the legal status of potential employees. Chris also introduced bills to prohibit federal and state benefits to undocumented workers, to prohibit the creation of sanctuary cities in Mississippi and to require undocumented aliens to pay out-of-state tuition at state schools.

OBAMACARE Chris led the challenge against Obamacare as lead counsel in a suit against the federal government for unconstitutionally imposing taxes on people who don’t have health insurance. Although the Supreme Court declared Obamacare constitutional, Chris has not let up in his fight to defeat Obamacare. He vocally opposed and voted against legislation aimed at implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion in Mississippi.

LIFE Chris has authored many pieces of legislation to protect the unborn and the sanctity of human life. He has also volunteered his time to serve as legal counsel to several pro-life organizations throughout Mississippi. Including, serving as a the pro-bono attorney for Pro-Life Mississippi in their lawsuit against Mississippi’s only abortion clinic.

SMALL BUSINESSES Chris sponsored legislation designed to give owners of small businesses more say about state regulations that could affect their livelihoods. The bill established a 12-member Small Business Regulatory Review Committee that would examine state rules and laws that could impact businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees and less than $10 million in gross annual sales or revenues. The bill passed and was signed into law in 2012.

GUN RIGHTS Chris sponsored legislation to require Mississippi to honor any valid concealed carry permit issued by another state. This bill, which was passed and signed into law, also grants the Department of Public Safety continued authority to enter into written reciprocity agreements with other states if those states require such an agreement before recognizing Mississippi carry permits.

EDUCATION Chris authored the 'Mississippi Opportunity Scholarship and Educational Improvement Tax Credit Act of 2012' to provide scholarships to low and middle-income students in low performing districts to pay tuition at a different public school or private school. It also would allow parents sending their children to private school to get a state income tax credit for the private school tuition. Chris has also led the fight against Common Core, arguing that local communities and teachers should decide how best to educate our children.

PROTECTING TAXPAYERS Chris believes the government has a duty to be accountable for how it spends taxpayer dollars. That’s why he introduced legislation that would require recipients of public assistance to be subject to random testing for nicotine. And that’s why Chris was one of just a few lawmakers who gave back portions of their salaries to the state’s general fund.

CUTTING SPENDING Chris has also been willing to vote against spending bills when he believed our state could not afford it. He was one of only two state senators to vote against a $196 million borrowing bill that included millions of dollars for questionable projects, including a Grammy museum in Cleveland, the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, and $1 million for a museum to house the country music collection of singer Marty Stuart in Philadelphia.

PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS As a first-term senator in 2010, Chris led the fight to protect private property rights when he took on then-Gov. Haley Barbour, a fellow Republican, and urged his fellow state senators to override Gov. Barbour’s veto of eminent domain legislation that would prevent government from taking private land for use by private companies.

VOTER ID LEGISLATION Chris helped defeat a poorly constructed voter ID bill that would have given felons the right to vote and instituted early voting. Instead, Chris pushed for a stronger voter ID bill that led to a statewide referendum that was approved by voters.

PROTECTING REAL MISSISSIPPIANS Chris authored Nathan’s Law which honors five-year-old Nathan Key of Jones County who was killed in 2009 when he was struck by a vehicle that passed his stopped school bus. The law permits felony charges against anyone who passes a stopped school bus and harms or kills a child and allows for misdemeanor charges against motorists who get too close to parked buses. The law requires motorists to stay at least 10 feet from a stopped school bus with fines up to $750 for a first offense. On a second offense, violators face a fine and up to a year in prison. Nathan’s Law was passed and signed into law.

Chris also authored Karen’s Law in honor of a Jones County teenager who was kidnapped, raped and killed in 1987. The killer pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received the maximum prison sentence allowed of 20 years. Chris believed Mississippi’s manslaughter laws were far behind those of other states and authored Karen’s Law to increase the sentence for manslaughter to a maximum of 30 years for any adult who kills a minor. The bill was passed and signed into law in 2012.

Chris has worked tirelessly to protect Mississippi’s children, writing the Child Protection Act, which requires immediate reporting of a suspected sex crime against a minor. This bill was signed into law in 2012. Chris also introduced legislation that raises the penalty for filing a false police report and mandates that crime victims are entitled to a free copy of initial police incident reports.[5]

”
—Chris McDaniel for Senate[6]

Campaign advertisements

The following is an example of an ad from McDaniel's 2018 election campaign.

"Fighter" - Friends of Chris McDaniel ad, released February 28, 2018

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

McDaniel was assigned to the following committees:

2020-2021

McDaniel was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

McDaniel was assigned to the following committees:

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, McDaniel served on the following committees:

Mississippi committee assignments, 2015
• Elections, Chair
• Congressional Redistricting, Vice Chair
• Judiciary, Division B, Vice Chair
• Appropriations
• Compilation, Revision and Publication
• Constitution
• Drug Policy
• Energy
• Legislative Reapportionment
• Municipalities
• Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

2012-2013

In the 2012-2013 legislative session, McDaniel served on the following committees:

2010-2011

In the 2010-2011 legislative session, McDaniel served on these committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Issues

Election challenge 2014

See also: Legal challenges to the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi

Mississippi's 2014 U.S. Senate election gained nation-wide media attention when accusations of voter fraud in the Republican runoff primary between McDaniel and incumbent Thad Cochran created hostilities within the GOP, eventually leading to two separate legal challenges.

  1. True the Vote filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Secretary of State and the Republican Party of Mississippi, arguing that they were denied access to voting records that should have been released based on the National Voter Registration Act Of 1993 (NVRA).
  2. McDaniel filed a lawsuit against incumbent Thad Cochran, stating that Cochran solicited Democratic votes, many of which violated Mississippi election law.

Timeline of events

  • June 3, 2014: McDaniel and Cochran competed for the Republican nomination in Mississippi's primary election. McDaniel won 157,733 votes to Cochran's 156,315, but McDaniel did not obtain the 50 percent of votes necessary to avoid a runoff election.[7]
  • June 24, 2014: Cochran defeated McDaniel in the runoff primary, with 194,932 votes to McDaniel's 187,265.[8]
  • July 1, 2014: True the Vote sued the Republican Party of Mississippi and the Mississippi Secretary of State, Delbert Hosemann, for failing to release the voting records necessary for an investigation of voter fraud in the Cochran vs. McDaniel runoff. The lawsuit argued that the records should have been released under the National Voter Registration Act Of 1993 (NVRA).[9]
  • July 3, 2014: McDaniel notified Cochran of his plans to challenge the primary runoff results due to illegitimate crossover votes from people who had voted in the Democratic primary and the Republican runoff.[10]
  • July 8, 2014: True the Vote withdrew their lawsuit without prejudice.[11]
  • July 9, 2014: True the Vote refiled their lawsuit in Jackson, in the Southern District, adding election commissions in Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson Davis, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Simpson and Yazoo counties to the list of defendants.[12]
  • July 24, 2014: Judge Nancy Atlas presided over a hearing for True the Vote's lawsuit, but did not make a ruling on the case.[13]
  • August 4, 2014: McDaniel confirmed at a news conference that he would challenge the runoff results by calling for a public hearing of the Mississippi GOP’s central committee.[14]
  • August 6, 2014: In a letter to McDaniel's attorney, Joe Nosef, chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, refused to hear McDaniel's case in a GOP hearing due to the short amount of time they would have to make a decision. He suggested instead that McDaniel take the case to court.[15]
  • August 14, 2014: McDaniel formally filed a legal challenge in Jones County, asking to delay adding Cochran's name to the general election ballot and calling for a new primary runoff.[16]
  • August 15, 2014: The chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court appointed retired chancery judge, Hollis McGehee, to oversee McDaniel's case.[17]
  • August 20, 2014: Judge McGehee refused to grant McDaniel's request to prevent Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann from preparing the ballots with Cochran's name, on the grounds that McDaniel did not sue Hosemann.[18]
  • August 21, 2014: Cochran's attorneys filed papers asking that the lawsuit be dismissed because McDaniel filed it too late. The papers also stated that McDaniel should not have sued Cochran, as he had no control over the election process.[18]
  • August 25, 2014: McDaniel's legal team submitted a response to Cochran's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The response argued that challenges to a state-wide primary election do not have to be filed within a certain time frame following the election.[19]
  • August 29, 2014: Judge Hollis McGehee dismissed the election challenge. The McDaniel campaign scheduled a news conference for September 2, at which McDaniel planned to announce whether or not he would file an appeal with the Mississippi Supreme Court.[20] McDaniel later pushed back the news conference, needing more time to make the decision.[21]
  • August 29, 2014: Judge Nancy Atlas ruled against True the Vote's lawsuit, stating that the requested voter information was not required to be disclosed under the National Voter Registration Act Of 1993 (NVRA).[22]
  • September 24, 2014: Cochran filed papers with the state Supreme Court asking that McDaniel's lawsuit be dismissed, as it had been in the Jones County circuit court.[25]
  • October 24, 2014: The state Supreme Court ruled to uphold the decision of the Jones County circuit court to dismiss McDaniel's lawsuit against Cochran. Four justices concurred with the decision, while two dissented and three did not participate. The two dissenting were Justices Josiah Coleman and Ann Lamar.[26]

Republican response

Criticism

  • Conservative columnist Ann Coulter called on McDaniel supporters to "get over Cochran." She explained, "When a U.S. president is using the IRS to terrify his political enemies, destroying American health care and opening our southern border to millions of future welfare-collecting, Democratic voters from the Third World, why is a dime's worth of money being wasted on trying to replace the Republican senator from Mississippi with a slightly different Republican?"[27]
  • Former Club for Growth President Chris Chocola stated, "If there’s clearly evidence of wrongdoing, that there were ballot integrity issues I suppose it would be appropriate for him to pursue those, but it would have to be clear. I don’t know that they’re clear at this point.”[29]
  • Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who was among those being sued by True the Vote, praised Judge Atlas' ruling against True the Vote, stating, "In the political pandemonium of the last several months, our voters should be encouraged Mississippi’s laws protecting privacy were not preempted by Federal law or the U.S. Constitution."[30]

Support

  • Former Alaska governor and U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted on Facebook that she supported an investigation of voter fraud in the runoff. She wrote, "I told Chris McDaniel last night that I stand with his effort to get to the bottom of this – he needs to know average, but tremendously concerned, citizens want to make sure the integrity of last night’s results in Mississippi are verified."[31]

Democratic response

  • Travis Childers, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Mississippi and Thad Cochran's general election challenger, congratulated Cochran on getting McDaniel's lawsuit dismissed. Childers stated, "I congratulate Senator Cochran on his win today in court. The allegations of the past couple months have raised serious questions about the electoral process, and I strongly believe we must ensure that every vote in Mississippi counts."[32]

Noteworthy events

Voting in Democratic primary

After losing a competitive runoff primary to incumbent Thad Cochran in 2014, McDaniel challenged the results by saying that a large percentage of Cochran's voters were Democrats who had illegally voted in the Republican runoff after voting in the Democratic primary. However, shortly after the runoff, the Clarion-Ledger announced that they had found records of McDaniel voting for a Democratic candidate in Mississippi's 2003 state primary. Although McDaniel denied having done so at first, his spokesman later stated, "Over a decade ago, Chris McDaniel voted in a Democratic primary in order to have a choice in local competitive elections."[33]

Campaign finance summary

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Chris McDaniel campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2023Lieutenant Governor of MississippiLost primary$1,076,701 $0
2019Mississippi State Senate District 42Won general$3,188 N/A**
2018U.S. Senate MississippiLost general$668,706 $669,021
Grand total$1,748,594 $669,021
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mississippi State Senate, "Chris McDaniel," accessed March 4, 2023
    2. ↑ Mississippi Today, "Who’s running for Mississippi statewide offices in 2023," February 2, 2023
    3. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "2015 Elections Calendar," accessed December 2, 2014
    4. ↑ Mississippi Department of State, "2011 Official State Senate Candidate List," accessed April 2, 2015
    5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    6. ↑ Chris McDaniel for Senate, "Results," accessed March 4, 2018
    7. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "2014 Republican Primary Results," accessed July 10, 2014
    8. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "2014 Republican Primary Runoff Results," accessed July 10, 2014
    9. ↑ Brenner Brief, "True the Vote v. Mississippi Complaint," accessed July 10, 2014
    10. ↑ CNN, "McDaniel plans to challenge Mississippi runoff result," accessed July 10, 2014
    11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Clarion Ledger, "True the Vote drops lawsuit, likely to refile in Jackson," accessed July 10, 2014
    12. ↑ Scribd, "True the Vote v. Mississippi Complaint," accessed July 10, 2014
    13. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named now
    14. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pol
    15. ↑ Jackson Free Press, "MS GOP Response to McDaniel: Er ... Try Court?" accessed August 21, 2014
    16. ↑ The Washington Times, "Chris McDaniel files a legal challenge to Thad Cochran’s Mississippi victory," accessed August 21, 2014
    17. ↑ The Sun Herald, "Retired judge to oversee Miss. election challenge," accessed August 21, 2014 (dead link)
    18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Hattiesburg American, "Cochran: Lawsuit should be dismissed," accessed August 25, 2014
    19. ↑ The Clarion-Ledger, "McDaniel says he didn't wait too late to file lawsuit," accessed August 28, 2014
    20. ↑ WLOX13, "Judge dismisses McDaniel election challenge," August 29, 2014
    21. ↑ Gulf Live, "Chris McDaniel pushes back announcement on status of election lawsuit until Wednesday," accessed September 3, 2014
    22. ↑ Hattiesburg American, "US judge: Voters' birthdates are not public record," accessed September 3, 2014
    23. ↑ CNN Politics, "Chris McDaniel takes primary fight with Thad Cochran to Mississippi high court," accessed September 9, 2014
    24. ↑ The Clarion-Ledger, "McDaniel lawyer confident with appeal," accessed September 9, 2014
    25. ↑ Mississippi Business Journal, "Cochran’s legal counsel asks Court to toss McDaniel’s lawsuit," accessed September 30, 2014
    26. ↑ The Clarion-Ledger, "State Supreme Court rejects McDaniel appeal," accessed November 12, 2014
    27. ↑ The Clarion-Ledger, "Coulter: McDaniel supporters need to get over Cochran," accessed August 21, 2014
    28. ↑ WLOX 13, "Hosemann calls McDaniel lawsuit a 'distraction'," accessed August 21, 2014
    29. ↑ The Wall Street Journal, "Club for Growth President: McDaniel Needs ‘Clear’ Evidence in Mississippi," accessed August 21, 2014
    30. ↑ Y'all Politics, "Hosemann statement on True the Vote decision," accessed September 3, 2014
    31. ↑ Talking Points Memo, "Palin: Mississippi Runoff Should Be Investigated For Illegal Voting," accessed August 21, 2014
    32. ↑ Jackson Free Press, "Childers Responds to McDaniel Lawsuit Dismissal," accessed September 3, 2014
    33. ↑ Talking Points Memo, "Mississippi Tea Party Challenger Voted As A Democrat In 2003," accessed July 3, 2014

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