Patrick Morrisey wins, Blankenship runs third, boosting GOP West Virginia chances

By Al Weaver

Published May 9, 2018 2:22am ET

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Patrick Morrisey wins, Blankenship runs third, boosting GOP West Virginia chances — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is shown Thursday, March 3, 2016, outside the state Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia. Morrisey's coal-dependent state is helping lead a lawsuit against President Barack Obama's new clean-power rules. In February the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the rules until legal challenges are resolved. | (AP Photo/John Raby)

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey took home the GOP nomination for Senate from the state Tuesday night, defeating bombastic energy baron Don Blankenship and Republican Rep. Evan Jenkins.

Morrisey, the state’s attorney general since 2013, won while Blankenship fell into third place despite a surge in the polls by the recently imprisoned energy executive, who saw a boost after the Fox News debate last Tuesday.

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