Patrick Morrisey beats Don Blankenship to win West Virginia Senate GOP primary
Source: Vox
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey prevailed in Tuesdays West Virginia Senate Republican primary election, holding off coal boss Don Blankenship and averting a disaster for the DC establishment.
Morrisey will now face Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the 2018 general election, a top Republican target. Its become something of a miracle the state still has a statewide Democrat at all, though Manchin has a long history within the state. But hes in choppy waters. While it has a working-class Democratic history, West Virginia went for Donald Trump by 42 points and hasnt gone for a Democrat in the presidential election since 1996.
Theres a very strong anti-establishment sentiment in West Virginia, and theres also an it cant get any worse sentiment, Patrick Hickey, a political science professor at West Virginia University, told me. Were just trying to shake it up.
Morrisey won 35 percent of the vote to best Blankenship (20 percent) and Rep. Evan Jenkins (29 percent), with more than 80 percent of precincts reporting.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/8/17327206/patrick-morrisey-wins-west-virginia-senate-primary-don-blankenship
Jfarrar3645
(14 posts)I hope the DNC throws all they can towards Manchin to keep him in office and not have slime like Morrisey
hughee99
(16,113 posts)pharmaceutical practices. Since I don't live in WV, though, I won't have to worry about that. That reminds me, spring is coming, which is epipen season.
stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)cos dem
(903 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,358 posts)Jfarrar3645
(14 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,134 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Go on WV voters and prove yourselves wrong.
TeamPooka
(24,216 posts)Aristus
(66,307 posts)But I'm not putting long odds on it.
If ever there was a state populated entirely by people who cut off their noses to spite their faces, it's WV...
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Like an earthquake or a volcano shakes things up.
Leaves devastation and ruined lives in its wake
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)John King giving Trump credit for this, because he one made a Twitter about it, that was spelled correctly. Give me a damn break media.