McConnell Campaign Trolls Blankenship With 'Narcos' Cocaine Meme
By Nicole Lafond | May 9, 2018 10:07 am
Cocaine Mitch beat Don Blankenship, West Virginias controversial Republican Senate primary candidate, at his own game on Tuesday evening.
After Blankenship lost the GOP primary Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells (R-KY) campaign tweeted out a picture of McConnell photoshopped onto a Netflix advertisement for Narcos, a show about cocaine drug lord Pablo Escobar. The meme features McConnells face superimposed over Escobars body, surrounded by white power thats meant to depict cocaine.
After his third place finish in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary on Tuesday evening, Blankenship mused whether hed gone too far in some of his attacks against McConnell, who poured an aggressive amount of cash into the primary race to keep Blankenship from winning. McConnell has been vocal about his opposition to the controversial candidate, who served a one-year sentence in prison for his role in failing to prevent a mine accident that killed 29 workers.
Blankenship responded to McConnells opposition with a series of odd and racially charged insults, like calling McConnells father-in-law a China person. In a campaign
ad released last week, Blankenship gave McConnell his cocaine Mitch nickname and vowed to ditch Mitch if he were elected to the Senate. The drug dig was in reference to a 2014 report in
The Nation about drugs that were discovered on a shipping vessel owned by the family of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, McConnells wife.
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