Thad Cochran upsets Chris McDaniel in Mississippi runoff stunner

By David M. Drucker

Published June 25, 2014 5:10am ET

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Thad Cochran upsets Chris McDaniel in Mississippi runoff stunner — A man straightens a Chris McDaniel signs outside the voting booths at the Oxford Conference Center in Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman) | Bruce Newman

Sen. Thad Cochran won an unlikely come-from-behind victory Tuesday in a Republican primary runoff in Mississippi, holding off Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel in a nail-biter.

McDaniel, a state senator, won the June 3 primary by half a percentage point, but finished just shy of the 50 percent he needed to clinch the Republican nomination and a November matchup with former Rep. Travis Childers, a Democrat.

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