Back in 2014, 2015, and after a one year hiatus from us covering him, again in 2017, 2018, and then in 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Mississippi who you might remember as the guy who considers any compromise to be a “surrender”, and attends meetings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. When he gets caught speaking to people who think the Antebellum South was keen, or cash donations from lawyers for the KKK, he frequently, gets caught lying about it, too. But McDaniel was the challenger to Sen. Thad Cochran in 2014, who sent operatives into the nursing home where Cochran’s wife was convalescing to have pictures of her taken laid up in bed to try and portray Cochran as some heartless monster who doesn’t care about her. One of his aides committed suicide after being caught in the disgusting scandal, which McDaniel, not entirely convincingly, claimed he had no knowledge of. After many failed lawsuits stemming from his 2014 election loss to Thad Cochran (he was furious Cochran had Democrats vote in the open primary on the Republican ticket, and select Cochran, since he was less extreme of an option), McDaniel’s career as a Mississippi State Senator is beginning to stall, as well, as every piece of legislation he has written throughout his time in office thus far has died in committee. McDaniel remains an all-around heel, responding to the hugely attended Women’s March on Washington, D.C., the day after the Trump inauguration by trolling on Facebook, referring to the crowd as “a group of unhappy liberal women” and asking how they “can afford all those piercings, tattoos, body paintings, signs, and plane tickets, when they want us to pay for their birth control?”
Well, that was akin to kicking a hornet’s nest. He was far from apologetic the next day, ranting that “no amount of liberal hell raising” would ever make him change his opinion about “free abortions” (This is the guy who considers any kind of compromise to be “surrender” of course), and laughing off the disgust at his remarks, because he felt that “literally 99 percent of you are not from MS. Perfect. It’s nice to know I’m in your heads.”
See? You can be an ***hole to the majority of the country… just make sure none of them are from your state, and no one will notice!
We noticed, Chris. We also noticed that as Sen. Thad Cochran announced his impending retirement in 2018, that Chris McDaniel was not content to sit and watch Missouri Gov. Phil Bryant appoint Cindy Hyde-Smith to the U.S. Senate, and McDaniel enterED the special election to fill out the remainder of Cochran’s term that ends in 2020, to avenge his 2014 loss.
During the primary for that race, polling showed Mike Espy and Cindy Hyde-Smith in a virtual tie at about 33%, and McDaniel trailing in a distant third, with about 12%. Although, McDaniel insisted that such numbers are from a “fake poll”, and just a “dirty trick” because of course he did. As the election advanced further, McDaniel tried to stir up support online among the Neo-Confederate crowd by first calling Conderate General Robert E. Lee a “hero” and posting a survey on his Twitter whether or not people should consider Robert E. Lee agreed. Let us us describe the response McDaniel received as “ratio’ed”.
Chris McDaniel ended up losing in the primary in the race for U.S. Senate, finishing third with only 16% of the vote. He was up for re-election in 2019 for his seat in the Mississippi State Senate, and will be re-elected on the basis that no one bothered to run against him. He thus will remain in office until 2023, where he will continue to vote against such modest suggestions for improving society as guaranteeing equal pay for women, and voting against removing the Confederate iconography from the Mississippi state flag, even under threat of sports and tourism boycotts if the state did not. McDaniel was quoted as saying “WHAT’S THE RUSH?” about taking something off the flag celebrating a failed rebellion over keeping human slaves from 160 years ago.
Simply put, he remains a racist tool.
One Year Ago, July 18th, 2019: Chris McDaniel (MS)… 2019 Update
Two Years Ago, July 18th, 2018: Chris McDaniel (MS)… 2018 Update
Three Year Ago, July 18th, 2017: Chris McDaniel (MS)… 2017 Update
Four Years Ago, July 18th, 2016: Jeremy Durham (TN)
Five Years Ago, July 18th, 2015: Chris McDaniel (MS)… 2015 Update
Six Years Ago, July 18th, 2014: Chris McDaniel (MS)… Original Profile