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

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

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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2018 Elections Advertising Don Blankenship Joe Manchin Republicans West Virginia