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By Josh Marshall | April 25, 2018 8:13 am
National Republicans led by Mitch McConnnell are pulling out every stop to block the West Virginia Senate campaign of disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship. They want a less controversial Republican to face off against Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who is one of Democrats most vulnerable senators in 2018. Now Blankenship is charging that McConnell may be driven the loyalties of his foreign born wife, according to The New York Times.
Speaking on a West Virginia radio show on Monday, Blankenship suggested McConnell has a conflict of interest when it comes to foreign relations because his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, was born in Taipei in 1953. Chaos father is a wealthy Chinaperson, said Blankenship, And theres a lot of connections to some of the brass, in you will, in China.
Chao emigrated to the United States at age 8, is a US citizen, and has served as Secretary of Labor in addition to her current role as Secretary of Transportation, among other high level appointments.
Paradoxically, Blakenship himself is engaged to be married to a woman born in China and himself considered becoming a Chinese citizen.
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exboyfil
(17,865 posts)He might very well get elected. My family is from West Virginia.
malaise
(269,260 posts)The turtle was overtly racist to the first African-American president.
dalton99a
(81,680 posts)tanyev
(42,663 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)her family was very close to the former premier of China. And McConnell deserves any grief he gets for the way he treated both PBO and Merrick Garland.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,542 posts)The guy is a shoe-in.