Patrick Morrisey beats Don Blankenship to win West Virginia Senate GOP primary

[brooklynite]

Source: Vox

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey prevailed in Tuesday’s 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. It’s become something of a miracle the state still has a statewide Democrat at all, though Manchin has a long history within the state. But he’s in choppy waters. While it has a working-class Democratic history, West Virginia went for Donald Trump by 42 points and hasn’t gone for a Democrat in the presidential election since 1996.

“There’s a very strong anti-establishment sentiment in West Virginia, and there’s also an ‘it can’t get any worse’ sentiment,” Patrick Hickey, a political science professor at West Virginia University, told me. “We’re 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]

1. Morrisey allowed pills to flood our state while his wife made millions from Big Pharma

I hope the DNC throws all they can towards Manchin to keep him in office and not have slime like Morrisey

[hughee99]

11. Yes, I don't want to vote for someone whose family member makes millions on slimy

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]

2. let's go Joe !

[cos dem]

3. Didn't the miner murderer say he was going to run as an independent?

[3Hotdogs]

4. I hope he goes for it.

[Jfarrar3645]

5. WV law doesn't allow a 3rd party/independent run if you lose your primary

[comradebillyboy]

6. Too bad, but Joe will win any way.

[ProudLib72]

7. They think it can't get any worse

Go on WV voters and prove yourselves wrong.

[TeamPooka]

8. aw

[Aristus]

9. I'd like to think that West Virginians would be smart enough to vote for Manchin.

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...

[Utah Grizzlee]

14. yep

[rpannier]

10. "We're just trying to shake it up."

Like an earthquake or a volcano shakes things up.
Leaves devastation and ruined lives in its wake

[Corgigal]

12. I heard on CNN

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.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. IOW Blankenship came in LAST.

[7962]

15. Headline is misleading. Makes it look like Blankenship came in second. But its Vox, so... nt