How Don Blankenship Is Out-Trumping Trump
Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia will all hold their midterm election primaries on Tuesday, but the nation's attention is laser-focused on the Mountain State and coal baron ex-con Don Blankenship. The Senate candidate from West Virginia became a national punchline last week, when, in the latest of his several bizarre campaign ads, he reeled off a number of racially insensitive remarks while dubbing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "Cocaine Mitch," an apparent reference to a report that drugs were found on a shipping vessel owned by his wife's family.
But Republicans aren't laughing. Politico reported over the weekend that Blankenship may have a narrow lead over his primary opponents Rep. Evan Jenkins and current West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and the GOP fears that if the controversial if not downright objectionable Blankenship were to secure the nomination, he would almost certainly lose in November to Democrat incumbent Joe Manchin.
As part of his Monday morning tweeting routine, President Trump fired off a warning to prospective voters.
Link to tweet
The president’s tweet comes as a breath of fresh air to Republicans who have all but contracted black lung trying to convince the state’s voters to steer clear of Blankenship.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/don-blankenship-west-virginia-w519868?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=050718_16
Trump will endorse him if he's nominated just like he did Roy Moore.
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