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ALEX ISENSTADT 04/30/2018 06:23 PM EDT
West Virginia Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is intensifying his offensive against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him Cocaine Mitch in a new TV ad released just more than a week until the Republican primary.
One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch Cocaine Mitch, Blankenship says toward the end of the spot, which comes as polls show the coal baron falling behind his more mainstream opponents.
Blankenship, who spent a year in prison following the 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 workers, offers no context for the jab. But he may be referring to a 2014 report in the liberal Nation magazine that drugs were once found aboard a shipping vessel owned by the family of McConnells wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
Blankenship has gone after McConnell in startlingly personal ways. During a recent interview with POLITICO, Blankenship said McConnell has a lot of connections in China, and that Chao is from China, so we have to be really concerned that we are in truth putting Americas interests first.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/30/blankenship-mcconnell-cocaine-west-virginia-560712
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(42,644 posts)is ripping McConnell for having a lot of connections in China?