[I suspect he won’t be. Last I checked he was up by nine. His ads all paint Morrissey as a carpetbagger and tool of Big Pharma who wants to take away your healthcare and (inexplicably) pours opioids down the throats of West Virginians.]
My guess is because he’s probably got ties to big donors that can be spun doing the same sorts of things...
Hammer Manchin on voting against the Tax Cuts that put WV back to work.. and for voting for things that shut down coal during the Obama years... etc etc etc..
Manchin was the most likely red state D to survive this fall, even though I thought he would lose... after Kavanaugh fiasco, I can’t see any way, regardless of how he votes on Kavanaugh, that WV will re-elect him.
Mylan Pharmaceutical is a major employer in Northern WV. This is an area where Morrissey needs as many votes as he can get.