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Their house primaries in both ohio and north carolina. ohio also holding a senate and gubernatorial primary races. more on the governor's race in a moment. in indiana, and i'll say a g.o.p. senate primary has gotten so bitter that which ever candidate comes out on top may have trouble defeating the democrats in the general election. and then there's west virginia, about which we have heard so much. the president and other republican leaders are telling people there, don't vote for the former cole ceo, don blankenship. so what has happened? he surged in the polls. he spent time in prison for an...

Who are filing in nao thinto th polling station today do they agree with him in the prtd the president coming out and saying this guy is not electable not only because of the fact he was in prison for a year because of that local mine explosion here, but also because some of the things he simply said on the campaign trail people find unpalatable, like the china people kmecomment he made with regard to mcconnell's familiarly. >> a lot of people were offended by that china people comment you made. do you feel badly for that? >> absolutely not. >> why not? >> because it's not anything that should...

Virginia, indiana, north carolina, and ohio, are at the polls right now. >> "the washington post" reports republican leaders on the edge -- on edge over the u.s. senate race in west virginia. the controversial front runner there don blankenship, served prison time for his role in a deadly mine explosion, is running against two establishment republicans. president trump is even urging voters to reject blankenship and vote for one of the other republicans instead. that's news. >> and since it's primary day, you know what that means. joining us now, steve kornacki. what is the gop so nervous abou...

Is a man who spent a year in prison for a mine explosion that killed 29 people. he doesn't live in west virginia. he uses racially charged slurs and then you look at a candidate like roy moore. he had all sorts of terrible allegations about touching underage girls. are voters being drawn to them because they don't like washington? is that the kind of candidate you get when you don't like washington? >> well, in this version of the republican party, that's exactly the candidate that you get. somebody who is being a true outsider. remember that blankenship blames the federal government for that ...

Blankenship supporters here, they aren't deterred by the president's lack of endorsement, but instead, they're being deterred by the local stigma. all day, i've been at three different polling stations and three different cities, and every single blankenship supporter said look, one, we believe he is the right guy to bring jobs back to coal country. they said two, we believe in second chances. they said, three, i don't want to talk on camera because here in the heart of coal country, people will be upset with me. they said these are people who knew people who died back in that mine explosion, ...