Michael NannyBloomberg donated $250,000 to the pro-Thad Cochran super PAC "Mississippi Conservatives" in late May, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings the organization provided show.
Bloomberg's donation to the Super PAC supporting Cochran could end up becoming a kiss of death for Cochran in the heated runoff against conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who bested Cochran in the popular vote in the primary a little over a week ago, forcing a runoff a week from Tuesday.
Bloomberg supports gun control--something Cochran says he's against.
"This is not a battle of dollars, this is a battle for the hearts and minds of America so that we can protect our children, protect innocent people," Bloomberg said in a recent television interview about his renewed fight against the National Rifle Association.
"We're the only civilized country in the world that has this problem," Bloomberg added, while highlighting gun-related deaths in the country.
While the NRA has interestingly enough also thrown its weight--with Bloomberg--behind Cochran, pro-2nd Amendment groups like National Association of Gun Rights and Gun Owners of America have endorsed McDaniel.
But at the recent NRA convention in April, NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox attacked Bloomberg as if speaking directly to him: "Stay out of our homes, stay out of our gun cabinets... because this freedom is not for sale."