West Virginian

In an interview, Blankenship argued that it’s the Democratic Party that’s inauthentic and that he’s the candidate most aligned with West Virginians.

“A lot of West Virginians feel trapped in West Virginia and feel like they have to leave — not a lot of people choose to stay here,” Adams said.

“But the problem with it is, it affects real people, real constituents of ours, real West Virginians.”

I can say for sure that under the current definitions, this is much more than what most West Virginians think of as agriculture.”

Manchin, he said, had the ability “to sort of talk that language to ordinary West Virginians in a way that they also understand.”