The attack ad that explains Republican fears over Don Blankenship in West Virginia

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The contradictions are heightening less than 24 hours before polls open in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary. Voters have a choice, a new digital spot declares, between coal baron Don Blankenship and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a decision between “a convicted criminal or a proven conservative.”

The quintessential attack ad is aggressive, brutal, and, the Morrisey campaign hopes, enough to hand him the nomination.

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