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    Republicans Might Want To Run Away From Trump This Year, But Not In West Virginia

    A wild GOP primary fight has emerged here with everyone tying themselves to the president. It features a congressman, an attorney general and an ex-con businessman, who's turned the race upside down.
    by Asma Khalid Apr 15, 2018 6 minutes
    "I'm the only candidate that's actually working with Donald Trump every step of the way," said Evan Jenkins, a congressman from the third congressional district who's running for the senate.

    In many parts of the country, President Trump and his unpopularity is a liability for Republicans in 2018, but not in West Virginia.

    In the 2016 election, West Virginia supported the president more than any other state. Trump carried the state with 69 percent of the vote.

    And to this day, the president remains well liked here. In fact, he's so popular that local Republicans are trying to align themselves with him, hoping his reputation will help them defeat incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, this fall.

    Although officially registered Democrats in West Virginia outnumber registered Republicans (a product of inertia and bygone family politics, as one analyst explained), in recent national and local elections, the state has swung strongly to the right.

    The red tilt has been so extreme and so swift that West Virginia Republicans looking to pick up a Senate seat this November assumed they had a distinct advantage in the midterms.

    And it was a logical assumption until

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