Posted on 03/20/2018 3:08:27 PM PDT by cotton1706
As his opponents hammer away at his history as a Democrat, Rep. Evan H. Jenkins has fallen to third place in West Virginia’s Republican Senate primary election, as the three leading Republicans engage in an increasingly ugly contest for the right to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin III.
A survey conducted by Osage Research and commissioned by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s Senate campaign shows Mr. Morrisey in front at 24.1 percent.
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who spent a year in federal prison in connection with the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in 2010, came in second at 22.6 percent, and Mr. Jenkins was third with 17.4 percent. The Republican field poll had a margin of error of 4.38 percent. The survey conflicts with previous polling data commissioned by the Jenkins campaign, which showed the congressman with a comfortable lead.
The winner of the May 8 primary will face Mr. Manchin, a Democrat, in what is widely seen as a key race and a golden opportunity for Republicans to pick up a seat in a state that Donald Trump won convincingly in the 2016 presidential contest.
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It being WV, bet on the liberal even though the Mountain State turned against the Democrat presidential candidates in 2000 and since. When all is said and done, I suspect Manchin will hold on.
KY people know what McC’s appeal is, but they won’t say what it is.
I think you're right on this.
Manchin plummets in poll more than other Senator
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/13/dem-joe-manchin-suffers-biggest-plummet-in-job-approval-any-senator-poll.html
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