MARTINSBURG, W.VA. — A former coal CEO’s post-prison rise is scrambling the GOP battle to unseat Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin(W.Va.).
Don Blankenship, released from jail less than a year ago, now appears to be within striking distance of the party’s nomination.
Strategists — and even his primary opponents — acknowledge he’s managed to turn an expected showdown between Rep. Evan Jenkins(W.Va.) and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey into a three-way fight with roughly a month to go until the May 8 primary election.
This week, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt reluctantly took over headlines and President Trump announced he's deploying the National Guard to the southern border. But here is some of the important news you might have missed:
Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia are all facing teacher demands for more school funding - and it could have election consequences, reports Reid Wilson.
Senate GOP candidates are more interested in tying themselves to the president in the upcoming midterm races than House GOP candidates, Alexander Bolton reports.
Republican leaders are in a tough position over President Trump’s push to reduce the spending in an already-passed bill, reports Alexander Bolton and Scott Wong.
Fears of a trade war with China are roiling the stock markets and raising broader questions about President Trump’s ‘America First’ economic policies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged almost 600 points on Friday, a single-day decline of around 2.3 percent. The sell-off came after Trump, the previous evening, had threatened a new round of tariffs against China, upping the ante between the two nations.
Democrats and other Trump critics say the verdict on his approach is already in.
