ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey won his state’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday [5-8-2018], an outcome welcomed by President Donald Trump and GOP leaders who warned that a victory by at least one of his rivals would have hurt their chances of defeating Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. Mr. Morrisey beat Rep. Evan Jenkins and Don Blankenship, a recently imprisoned coal magnate who peppered his campaign with incendiary comments about national GOP leaders. Both of Mr. Morrisey’s challengers conceded the race before it was called by the Associated Press. Mr. Manchin is counted among the Senate Democrats’ most vulnerable incumbents, given Mr. Trump’s wide margin of victory in the state in 2016. Mr. Trump had cautioned West Virginia Republicans to avoid a replay of last fall’s Alabama GOP Senate special election primary, in which Roy Moore defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, only to lose to Democrat Doug Jones in the general election after it emerged that Mr. Moore was accused of molesting several teenaged girls when he was in his 30s. Mr. Moore denies any sexual misconduct.”
-Janet Hook and Reid J. Epstein, “Trump and GOP Leaders Notch Primary Victories,” The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2018 12:22 am