Blankenship refers to McTurtle as 'Cocaine Mitch' in ad.

[deminks]

I kid you not.

Break out the popcorn.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-blankenship-explains-cocaine-mitch-mcconnell-by-blaming-his-chinese-wife-for-drug-smuggling?source=twitter&via=desktop

Don Blankenship Explains ‘Cocaine Mitch’ McConnell by Blaming His Chinese Wife for Drug Smuggling

Don Blankenship, the ex-convict mine owner running for Senate in West Virginia, is intensifying his war against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ahead of the Republican primary next Tuesday.

Blankenship, who has fallen behind his competitors Rep. Evan Jenkins and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in recent polling, released a bizarre ad on Monday in which he referred to McConnell as "cocaine Mitch."

“One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch Cocaine Mitch,” Blankenship says in the ad which appears to no longer be featured on his Facebook page.

On Tuesday, Blankenship’s campaign sought to explain the term by blaming McConnell for the alleged misdeeds of a company owned by the father of McConnell’s wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

“Mitch McConnell and his family have extensive ties to China,” the campaign said in a statement. “His father-in-law who founded and owns a large Chinese shipping company has given Mitch and his wife millions of dollars over the years. The company was implicated recently in smuggling cocaine from Colombia to Europe, hidden aboard a company ship carrying foreign coal was $7 million dollars of cocaine and that is why we’ve deemed him ‘Cocaine Mitch.’”

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[question everything]

1. John Oliver ran this ad

This is crazy. And, of course, racist which, of course, will endure him to all the deplorables.

Before 2016, we would have thought that such a candidate would be a gift to Manchin; this is how we thought about Trump, would be a gift to Hilary.

Never underestimate the stupidity and gullibility of the American voters.