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Experts Fear Roy Moore Style Disaster If Blankenship Campaign Moves Forward
National Republicans — on the heels of the Roy Moore and Rick Saccone debacles — worry they’re staring down their latest potential midterm election fiasco: coal baron and recent federal prisoner Don Blankenship.
With Blankenship skyrocketing in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary and blanketing the airwaves with ads assailing his fractured field of rivals as career politicians, senior party officials are wrestling with how, or even whether, to intervene. Many of them are convinced that Blankenship, who served a one-year sentence after the deadly 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine, would be a surefire loser against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin — and potentially become a national stain for the party.
The discussions have intensified over the past few weeks. During separate meetings with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, aides to Blankenship’s two primary opponents, Rep. Evan Jenkins and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, pointed to Blankenship’s traction and questioned what could be done to stop him. The Senate GOP campaign arm, which heard out the appeals, recently commissioned a survey to gauge the coal king’s electoral strength and determine his staying power in the race.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/20/west-virginia-senate-republicans-blankenship-472050
With Blankenship skyrocketing in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary and blanketing the airwaves with ads assailing his fractured field of rivals as career politicians, senior party officials are wrestling with how, or even whether, to intervene. Many of them are convinced that Blankenship, who served a one-year sentence after the deadly 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine, would be a surefire loser against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin — and potentially become a national stain for the party.
The discussions have intensified over the past few weeks. During separate meetings with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, aides to Blankenship’s two primary opponents, Rep. Evan Jenkins and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, pointed to Blankenship’s traction and questioned what could be done to stop him. The Senate GOP campaign arm, which heard out the appeals, recently commissioned a survey to gauge the coal king’s electoral strength and determine his staying power in the race.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/20/west-virginia-senate-republicans-blankenship-472050
Please! Can't wait until Trump shows up to declare he's a BFF with Blankenship!
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You have a man who spent a year in Federal prison for violating mine safety regulations where how many miners died? And from all reports this same man is totally unrepentant for his willful negligence as the CEO of Murray Mining. This man, Blankenship, is running for the WVa's Senate seat--the Senate of the United States of America. And the only concern the GOP's campaign arm has is:
this fucker's electoral strength and staying power???
Has the Republican Party learned anything? Obviously not. 
They only want someone who preaches to the hate machine 100% and anything else is not acceptable. 
