A coal baron convict's hard-charging bid to win the GOP Senate primary Tuesday in West Virginia is throwing into chaos Washington Republicans’ plans for swiping the Democrat-held seat in November. “To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. Remember Alabama.”The final line was a reference to the Alabama Senate seat Republicans lost after Judge Roy Moore was nominated. National Republicans are scrambling to avoid a repeat, worried Blankenship -- convicted in 2015 of mine-safety violations -- can't beat Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in November. He has consistently voted against Senate Republicans’ ObamaCare repeal or replace efforts and most recently their tax-cut bill that Trump signed in late-December 2017.

Source: Fox News May 07, 2018 17:07 UTC