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Don Blankenship is running on Trumpism in West Virginia. The GOP is worried it will work.
Topic Started: May 7 2018, 02:14 PM (47 Views)
Mr. Tik
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Elkins, West Virginia (CNN)

The similarities between President Donald Trump and ex-con coal baron-turned-West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship are impossible to miss.

Both are businessman-turned-politicians whose names are synonymous with their industries. Both tapped into raw nativism during their respective runs. And both have used conspiracy theories to dismiss glaring issues with their candidacies.
But now that Blankenship is within striking distance of upsetting two candidates who Washington Republicans would rather see run against vulnerable Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in November, Trump-world and establishment Republicans have joined forces to upend a candidate whose upstart run looks like a clone of Trump's successful bid just two years ago.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/don-blankenship-trump-west-virginia-primary/
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President Trump. Don Blankenship.

This is the Republican Party in 2018. This what they will run on. This is what they want.


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Mr. Tik
May 7 2018, 02:14 PM
Elkins, West Virginia (CNN)

The similarities between President Donald Trump and ex-con coal baron-turned-West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship are impossible to miss.

Both are businessman-turned-politicians whose names are synonymous with their industries. Both tapped into raw nativism during their respective runs. And both have used conspiracy theories to dismiss glaring issues with their candidacies.
But now that Blankenship is within striking distance of upsetting two candidates who Washington Republicans would rather see run against vulnerable Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in November, Trump-world and establishment Republicans have joined forces to upend a candidate whose upstart run looks like a clone of Trump's successful bid just two years ago.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/don-blankenship-trump-west-virginia-primary/
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At McConnell’s Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship, and suggesting that Mr. Blankenship’s nomination would lead to a replay of the party’s embarrassing loss last year in Alabama.

Mr. Trump’s decision to speak out on the race came after Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whom Mr. Blankenship has targeted in a deeply personal manner, urged the president in a telephone call on Sunday to weigh in against the controversial former coal executive, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/don-blankenship-trump-west-virginia.html
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