A tweet welcoming home Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and thanking him for his service from the account of Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran has been deleted.

Cochran is headed to a runoff election against Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel, and somebody obviously decided the tweet wasn’t in the best interest of his campaign to retain his Senate seat.

https://twitter.com/TheEagleBrigade/status/474282828646338560

The tweet from Sen. Cochran’s account was deleted after having been up for three days:

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Twitchy coverage of the Bergdahl story.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to correct the fact that Thad Cochran represents Mississippi and not Missouri. Twitchy regrets the error.