Sometimes I hate sitting on these things until the next Monday…
This is one of those times.
Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals
Weekly Standard ^ | 05/07/2018 | John McCormackPosted on 5/7/2018, 10:04:51 AM by GIdget2004
Republicans are panicking as internal polls show Don Blankenship, a coal baron who spent time in jail for a mining disaster that killed 29 workers, surging into the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary over Attorney General Patrick Morrissey and Congressman Evan Jenkins.
The results of an internal campaign poll conducted for one rival Senate campaign on Saturday and Sunday were: Blankenship 31 percent, Jenkins 28 percent, Morrissey 27 percent.
The results of another internal poll conducted Friday and Saturday were: Blankenship 28 percent, Morrissey 27 percent, Jenkins 14 percent. Two weeks earlier, the same rival campaign found Blankenship at 14 percent, Morrissey at 29 percent, and Jenkins at 26 percent.
Politico reported Saturday night that internal polling showed Blankenship surging, but the specific numbers are being reported for the first time by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
President Donald Trump, who overwhelmingly carried the state in 2016, weighed in on Twitter Monday morning: “To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference. Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can’t win the General Election in your State…No way! Remember Alabama. Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!”
“If it’s truly a two-point race, that Trump tweet is going to make a difference,” one West Virginia Senate campaign official tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. What explains the Blankenship surge? “The debate [Monday on Fox News] helped him because Morrissey and Jenkins did what’s kind of playing out on TV–they’re slicing each other up,” says the campaign official. “Don got to be a one-liner folksy guy.” Second, Blankenship has taken up all the news coverage in the race by labeling Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as “cocaine Mitch” and launching racist attacks against McConnell for creating jobs for “China people.”
To: GIdget2004
If Blankenship wins the primary, u can write WV off as a GOP gain.
2 posted on 5/7/2018, 10:06:25 AM by tennmountainman (“Prophet Mountainman” Predicter Of All Things RINO…for a small fee.)
To: tennmountainmanAnd how frustrating would that be. West Virginia has been becoming increasingly Republican in recent years. Hate to see Manchin get re-elected by default, because of a flawed GOP candidate.
WE can get snakebit so to speak, can’t we?
Well, when you do political snake-handling, you’re gonna get bit. Just sayin’…
Alabama is a strong Republican state too, yet Democrat Doug Jones won the special election there.
6 posted on 5/7/2018, 10:10:33 AM by Dilbert San Diego
To: GIdget2004
This says it all from the article:
“If Blankenship manages to win despite Trump’s opposition, it will be a strong data point for Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie’s theory that many Republican primary voters are simply “voting for the craziest son of a bitch in the race.”
To: GIdget2004
Didn’t
DJTiDJiT
FIFY.
carry WV by something like 70-25? If so he should be getting behind someone who can actually win in November…and do it loudly.If we can’t win WV we’re in deep poop.
8 posted on 5/7/2018, 10:13:00 AM by Gay State Conservative (You Say “White Privilege”…I Say “Protestant Work Ethic”)
To: tennmountainman
To: GIdget2004
I support Blankenship. Like Senator-in-Exile Roy Moore, he is a GODLY man who has been unfairly persecuted by the DEEP STATE and the ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISTS. He is a blood and soil white warrior for the TRUMP
Is he, now?
and speaks in the tribal REALTALK. I deem any disapproval coming from THE TRUMP – all by “unnamed sources”, y’know – to be the FAKE NEWS.
25 posted on 5/7/2018, 10:32:30 AM by Max Tactical (MAGA Style!)
To: Max TacticalI deem any disapproval coming from THE TRUMP – all by “unnamed sources”, y’know – to be the FAKE NEWS.
So a tweet posted publicly by President Trump himself is an “unnamed source” for the quote in your book?
Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’…
To: Republican Wildcat
Obviously hacked. THE TRUMP would say no such thing.
86 posted on 5/8/2018, 12:23:53 AM by Max Tactical (MAGA Style!)
A Congressman’s Profanity Laced Tirade in a Safeway Grocery Store (Warning Profane) The Maven ^ | 4-11-18 | Erick Erickson Posted on 4/11/2018, 7:10:03 PM by Anti-Bubba182
One of the President’s congressional defenders has privately decided he hates Trump and wants to unload.
…..He says he just needs to vent. I suggest what we’re doing is one of the reason’s Trump won — a congressman says nice things in public and bad things in private…..
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It could be the whole thing is in Erickson’s imagination. I don’t see a Congressman going off like that in front of any reporter type.The language is too bad for FR, but is available at the link.
To: Anti-Bubba182
“The language is too bad for FR, but is available at the link.”
Thanks for sparing us the foul language. Let’s leave it to the leftists to wallow in their gutter talk on their forums. It suits their intellects.
26 posted on 4/11/2018, 8:24:12 PM by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer–giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Trump signals strikes against Syria, lays into Assad backer Russia wina.com ^ | April 11, 2018 | Reuters Posted on 4/11/2018, 1:11:25 PM by Berlin_Freeper
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Trump was reacting to a warning from Russia that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over the deadly assault on a rebel enclave near Damascus would be shot down and the launch sites targeted.
His comments raised fears of direct conflict over Syria for the first time between the two world powers backing opposing sides in the seven-year-old civil war, which has aggravated instability across the Middle East.
“Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
“You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!” Trump tweeted, referring to Moscow’s alliance with Assad.
To: Reno89519I voted for the guy who campaigned against these stupid, useless military adventures. If I wanted a Sunni Muslim in the White House I would have voted for Jeb Bush.7 posted on 4/11/2018, 1:23:46 PM by Alberta’s Child (“I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s.”)
I prefer to think of it as “Peak Tea Party”.
If ONLY.
When the TPing of the White House is over, and the criminals are hustled off the stage, I fully expect the TeaBagger crowd to try another camouflage/rebranding to avoid their poisonous legacy.
Many have asked “is our Villagers learning?”. Sadly, No.
Who says you have to wait until Monday? Why not just post every day?
iDJiT? I’m so stealing that.
Also, looks like Max Tactical has been banned and his posts deleted.