Mississippi’s Chris McDaniel Launches New PAC Designed To Crack GOP Establishment

[William Tell]

Mississippi’s Chris McDaniel Launches New PAC Designed To Crack GOP Establishment

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The GOP establishment can’t make Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel go away.
On Friday, McDaniel will be announcing—he told Breitbart News exclusively—a new Political Action Committee (PAC) designed to help conservatives across Mississippi, and the nation, get elected to political office, replacing GOP establishment politicians.
The PAC, titled the United Conservatives Fund will focus on “electing conservatives and holding Republicans accountable while messaging conservatism in a way that secures conservatives get a chance to be elected even over some of those in the establishment,” McDaniel tells Breitbart.

What we’re focused on here is a couple of things: The first is we’re creating an organization that speaks directly to conservatism, not to party. Second, we want an organization that will focus on outreach. We do outreach based on logical and intricate messaging. And lastly, we’ve got to be able to hold our officials accountable because despite the grassroots complaining and despite our wishes, so far the Republican leadership in the establishment has ignored us. This fund will be used to make them listen to us once and for all.
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McDaniel is the man for the job.
A state senator in one of reddest states in the south, McDaniel ran for U.S. Senate in a Republican primary against then-six-term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran last year. McDaniel beat Cochran in the primary on June 3, but because of a third candidate in the race McDaniel was kept under 50 percent and had to face Cochran in a runoff on June 24.
Over the course of the ensuing three weeks, Cochran and his allies hatched a plan to play the race card, convincing select Democratic voters in the black community to cross over and vote for Cochran in the Republican primary runoff. Some of his idea men included Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s top 2012 campaign strategist, and Austin and Henry Barbour, nephews of former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, as well as several others.
On June 24, McDaniel won more Republican votes in the primary runoff—but Cochran won re-election that day because enough Democrats crossed over and voted for him. The GOP base in Mississippi has essentially been in open rebellion against the Washington Republican establishment ever since. It could come back to bite establishment Republicans whose operatives engaged in these tactics. That includes Romney and now former Texas Gov. Rick Perry—who hired Henry Barbour as a political consultant.
It could also damage establishment Republicans throughout Mississippi, where Haley Barbour has—according to Politico—maintained a “Godfather-like” type control over politics, but has seen that grasp slipping in the past couple years. In 2015, every statewide elected official—and every state house and state senate member—who supported the Barbours’ actions and other GOP establishment actions over the past several years will need to face re-election.
Instead of coasting back into their jobs, however, the new effort McDaniel is officially leading is aimed at wreaking havoc on the good-old-boys in Mississippi’s GOP establishment: They’re going to face well-funded and trained primary challengers, with a serious counter-narrative being put forward for the first time in the state from an official entity outside that of either the Republican or Democratic parties. McDaniel tells Breitbart News:

Mississippi is still an extremely important place because of what happened in June. We recognize that the establishment showed their true colors in Mississippi. What we want to make sure is that what happened on June 24 never happens again. The idea that Republicans would pull in 50,000 Democrats to defeat a conservative should be appalling to anyone with reasonable sensibilities. We have to make sure that never occurs again and we have to make sure that those who did that are held accountable. This is going to be a nationwide organization, but Mississippi right now is still right in the heart of the battle for conservatism.
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In Washington, D.C. this week, for example, establishment Republicans are pushing a border bill from House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX). He says his bill is the “strongest” on border security in the history of Congress. Senate Immigration Subcommittee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) disagrees. Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), echoing Sessions’ criticisms of McCaul’s bill, even said that McCaul’s bill is a “Trojan Horse” for amnesty by Republican leaders using it as what Sessions calls a “cover vote” to help members claim they’re tough on the border.
Meanwhile, Republican leadership officials in the U.S. House completely imploded on a scheduled vote on an anti-abortion bill just ahead of the March For Life. In that case, a handful of liberal Republican women including Reps. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and Jackie Walorski (R-IN) blocked a measure that had passed, word-for-word, just last year.
McDaniel says this kind of behavior from Washington establishment Republicans is unacceptable, and his PAC is going to work in Mississippi and across the country to change that as swiftly as possible.

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