Blogger's arrest shakes up Mississippi Republican primary
Updated 2:30 p.m. ET, 5/18/2014
(CNN) - The arrest of a man who allegedly obtained an image of a senator's bedridden wife has shaken up an already intense Republican primary battle in Mississippi.
Political blogger Clayton Kelly was arrested Thursday, accused of exploiting a vulnerable adult and illegally and improperly obtaining a photo of her without her consent for his own benefit, according to the Madison Police Department.
Airwaves heating up in Mississippi Senate race
Updated 6:05 p.m. ET, 4/7/2014
(CNN) - Two leading fiscal conservative groups are going after Thad Cochran, one of the most vulnerable Republican senators up for re-election.
Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Action announced Monday they would each begin airing television ads against the Mississippi incumbent.
And Cochran's team is hitting back with an ad of their own, slamming GOP challenger Chris McDaniel for his views on government assistance programs and post-Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in the state. And Cochran is also getting assistance from an outside group as the ad wars in the Mississippi GOP Senate primary heat up.
GOP Sen. Cochran says he doesn't know much about the tea party
(CNN) - While some Republican incumbents with primary challengers are trying to woo conservatives, Sen. Thad Cochran says he's not too familiar with the tea party.
"The tea party is something I don't really know a lot about," the six-term senator from Mississippi told reporters. "It's a free country. We have open opportunities for people to participate in the election process."
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Will challenges from right hurt GOP chances to retake Senate?
Washington (CNN) –– Sen. John Cornyn, welcome to the club.
The two-term Texas lawmaker is now the seventh Republican Senator up for re-election next year to face a primary challenge from his right.
FULL STORY Six-term Sen. Cochran will run again in 2014
(CNN) - Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi, will run for a seventh term next year, his spokesman Chris Gallegos confirmed to CNN.
Until Friday, it was unclear whether the longtime Senator would try to keep his seat. Cochran, who turns 76 on Saturday, already faces a primary challenger in conservative state Senator Chris McDaniel.
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