When President Trump urged West Virginia Republicans to vote against insurgent candidate Don Blankenship in Tuesday’s Senate primary, the convict and former coal CEO shot back that he was “Trumpier than Trump.”

If so, that was apparently too Trump even for West Virginia, a state where the president beat Hillary Clinton by 42 points and still boasts a job approval rating above 60 percent. Blankenship finished third in the primary, barely breaking 20 percent of the vote and dispelling the conventional wisdom that his candidacy had surged after a bizarre debate performance in which he lodged scarcely veiled racial attacks against the family of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (known to Blankenship as “Cocaine Mitch”), R-Ky.