Elkins, West Virginia (CNN) The similarities between President Donald Trump and ex-con coal baron-turned-West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship are impossible to miss. To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference. But the President's son does not share that sentiment and unleashed a series of tweets on Thursday urging West Virginia Republicans to vote against Blankenship. A super PAC linked to Democrats has been running ads in West Virginia attacking Jenkins and Morrisey for weeks. "They are in the middle of a bloodbath right now," said a gleeful West Virginia Democrat with ties to Manchin.

Source: CNN May 07, 2018 10:07 UTC