Chris McDaniel confirms that he will challenge the results of the Mississippi runoff. And the prize for worst sport of 2014 goes to.....

Courtesy of CNN:  

The tea party-backed challenger who narrowly lost a Republican primary runoff in Mississippi to longtime Sen. Thad Cochran says he plans to file a legal challenge contesting those results "any day now." 

State Sen. Chris McDaniel said Friday on CNN's "New Day" that "the integrity of the process matters. We believe on that night of June 24 there were thousands of irregularities and we've already found thousands of irregularities in the process." 

McDaniel also defended his campaign's offer - announced Thursday - of rewards of $1,000 each for individuals providing "evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud." 

And McDaniel said "we condemn any racist comments what so ever," when asked by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan about a bizarre Cochran campaign conference call on Wednesday that included borderline racist comments by an unidentified caller who appeared to be a supporter of the challenger's campaign.

Thad Cochran beat McDaniel by over 6,500 votes, and it is very unlikely that there anywhere near that many disputed votes. However the McDaniel campaign has stated that they do not need to find enough votes to overturn the election, just enough to bring into question Conchran's fifty percent margin which would mandate yet a second runoff.

Oh lucky Mississippi.

Of course this is really pissing off the Cochran campaign who seriously doubt the numbers that the McDaniel team is throwing around:

Cochran campaign adviser Austin Barbour in a news conference called claims of illegal voting "baseless." He said McDaniel "ran a great campaign, and we applaud them." 

"Sadly, the time has come now that we can no longer sit still with all these baseless accusations that are being fed by the McDaniel campaign and their out-of-state allies," Barbour said. "… If they've got hard evidence, bring it forward, but quit talking about exaggerated numbers that they know are not true and we know are not true. … The time has come to put up or shut up." 

I don't live in Mississippi, obviously, but if this shit were happening in Alaska I can say with some degree of certainty that the next election that McDaniel forced the state to pay for would see his numbers down in the single digits as voters took out their anger on him over having to schlep to the polls yet again.