Mitch McConnell gets the last laugh over Don Blankenship defeat

Published May 9, 2018 4:13am ET



No, really, he did.

On Tuesday night, West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship lost his primary race to become the Republican nominee to challenge incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in the November midterm elections. Manchin will now fight for his U.S. Senate seat against GOP nominee Patrick Morrisey, who’s the state’s current attorney general.

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