Miss. Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel Distances Himself from Comments on Reparations and ‘Mamacita’

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Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel is widely regarded as the Tea Party candidate with the best shot of knocking off an incumbent U.S. senator in a GOP primary this year. Incumbent Thad Cochran, 76, is well-known for his love of pork-barrel spending and could easily lose a race decided by conservative primary voters. But establishment Republicans are now sounding the alarm about the Tea Party challenger’s temperament in light of newly-surfaced audio of McDaniel making impolitic remarks on a radio show he once hosted.

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