The National Review has endorsed Patrick Morrisey's run for Senate in West Virginia, noting that he would be a "valuable addition to the right flank of the Republican caucus."
As the first Republican attorney general in West Virginia since the 1930s, Morrisey's primary opponents are Rep. Evans Jenkins and coal mogul Don Blankenship, who are challenging incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin for his U.S. Senate seat in the November general election, WV News reported.
A Fox News Poll released last week, which randomly sampled 985 likely Republican primary voters in West Virginia area, found that 25 percent of the respondents would vote for Jenkins and 21 percent would vote for Morrisey, although Jenkin's lead falls within the poll's margin of sampling error.
A further 16 percent said they would vote for Blankenship while other candidates Tom Willis, Bo Copley and Jack Newbrough received no more than four percent support.
Morrisey's campaign gained momentum Friday when both Sen. Ted Cruz and Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, endorsed him for U.S. Senate, Breitbart reported.
"In the race for U.S. Senate, I am proud to endorse Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and I urge the voters in West Virginia to join me by supporting him," Cruz said in a statement.
Gorka applauded Morrisey's "record of conservative results and fighting for principle."
"From standing up to President Obama’s War on Coal, to expanding gun rights, to defending unborn life, your record speaks for itself,” he said, per Breitbart.
Speaking about his opposition, Morrisey previously told The Washington Examiner that Jenkins has "misled voters about his record repeatedly, from his support for cap-and-trade, which kills coal jobs, to his rallying for Hillary Clinton, to his votes for gun control."
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