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Mitch mcconnell. you dont condone that. >> i think its horrific. people are having personal attacks now. there is many reasons -- if you want to find a reason to vote against me or for me im hoping i have given you enough. you dont have to make up stuff or attack my name or attack my family. nobody even knows what the issues are in the republican party right now. im not going to stand back and let morrissy deteriorate the quality of health care or attack the teachers. im not going the stand for ...

Licking their chops. >> joe manchin has not helped us in this stuff. >> reporter: in the waning days of republican primaries gop hopefuls are talking less about manchin. >> it is the pill pushers and patrick has represented those people for years and made millions. >> reporter: and more about each other. >> did your mom ever tell you a that you should wash your mouth out with soap with those lies? >> reporter: attorney general patrick morrissy and jenkins are locked in a nasty fight over coal jo...

Hillary clinton buttons on me and things that just simply never existed. that ad represents exactly what patrick morrissy was doing. >> reporter: but a third figure also looms large in this race. >> i dont know any politician supporting me so that should tell you something. >> reporter: an insurgent candidate known best as the ceo of massey energy. don blankenship spent a year in prison after a coal mine explosion left 29 of his miners dead. >> it is incredible. they sent me to prison for a misd...

This race have said that its pretty much a mess at this point and they think thats really because blankenship is seeing a surge, but jenkins is also seeing his support start sliding. a lot of that has to do with the fox debate that happened on tuesday in morgan town where jenkins and morrissy basically got on the stage and they tried to ignore blankenship and he was able to run the way he wanted to run against mcconnell as the outsider, as the businessman. that worked. >> did you talk to any vot...

Stretching the truth. >> he refused to support trump over hillary. >> reporter: that ad earned jenkins criticism for doctoring a photo to look like moriy and hillary clinton. >> any man who would fake a handshake and photo shop that in and imply he was shaking hands with hillary clinton, that person is a liar. >> you know what, patrick morrissy has been mischaracterizing and photo shopping in pictures with hillary clinton buttons on me and things that just simply never existed. that ad represent...

Im a west virginia person. youre an nbc person. in order to have a racist statement, you have to mention a race or derogatory comment about a race. >> don tells it like it is. just like trump did. and thats why hes getting support in this state. >> absolutely unreal. republicans had thought that they had successfully pushed blankenship to the edges of this race and that they were going to end up with morrissy or jenkins, one of the two. i would argue it would be more generic republicans on the b...

Enough just to run with the president, you have to actually be a candidate who is like the president in personality and approach. i want to, though, take a move back to west virginia because our allie batally was on the ground. >> reporter: republicans are licking their chops. >> joe manchin has not helped us in this stuff. >> reporter: in the waning days of republican primaries gop hopefuls are talking less about manchin. >> it is the pill pushers and patrick has represented those people for ...

Manchin. >> cayden would know, he understands these races a lot. its interesting to me, this is a poll from a few weeks ago that showed evan jenkins, a congressman from west virginia and patrick morrissy who is the current attorney general is sort of neck and neck within the margin of error, four points apart and joe manchin behind. this might be cynical of me to ask this question but all the china person stuff and all that, despite the fact that he was -- he owned the mine where those 29 men di...