Blankenship defends "Cocaine Mitch" TV ad
Yesterday, you might have seen a provocative — and incendiary — TV ad from West Virginia Senate Republican candidate Don Blankenship in which he refers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as “Cocaine Mitch.”
Well, the Blankenship campaign defends the “Cocaine Mitch” attack with this explanation:
Mitch McConnell and his family have extensive ties to China. His father-in-law who founded and owns a large Chinese shipping company has given Mitch and his wife millions of dollars over the years. The company was implicated recently in smuggling cocaine from Colombia to Europe, hidden aboard a company ship carrying foreign coal was $7 million dollars of cocaine and that is why we’ve deemed him “Cocaine Mitch.”(snip) A new book by Peter Schweizer examines how career politician Mitch McConnell used his elected influence and his wife’s family’s policies to get rich while regular Americans lost a trade war. A trade war that has cost millions their jobs and therefore created idleness and despair, which as we know leads to illegal drug use including cocaine. Cocaine overdose deaths in the United States are rising rapidly as a result.
Update: We wrote earlier that this ad appeared to be taken down on Blankenship's Facebook page. Now it's back up.