WASHINGTON—Throughout his campaign in West Virginia, Don Blankenship delivered a string of incendiary comments, including calling Mitch McConnell “Cocaine Mitch” and referring to the Senate majority leader’s in-laws as “China people.”And whether he wins or loses, Mr. Blankenship, who ran for the Republican nomination in the state’s Senate primary on Tuesday, successfully employed Trump-style campaign tactics to get him to the precipice of the GOP nomination.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2018 23:51 UTC