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Blankenship responding to president trump's call for his defeat in today's republican u.s. senate primary. joining us now, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. editor in chief of axios, nicholas johnston and political reporter for nbc news and msnbc, alex us. >> the story that's emerging in the last couple of days is in west virginia. it's the late momentum that blankenship has in this race. a three-way race, when you look at the public polling, it looked like he had faded back to third place, ten days ago. it looked like the effort from the republican establ...

Against washington. i can't wait until president trump is primaried in the presidential election, says i'm nor president trump than president trump is. >> they're tapping into also ta overt bigotry in the case of blankenship talking about "china people" and mitch mcconnell's china family. alex, let's talk about who's getting behind these candidates and who's not. we saw the president going out and saying wachovia don't vote for this blankenship guy because he can't win a general election against joe manchin. we've seen members of the house run away from him but not in the senate. what's up wit...