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That the president's popularity transfers and a success of these candidates may ultimately depend on their own connection with voters. >> there is a senate primary in ohio tonight. congressional primaries in new york -- north carolina but much of the focus is here in west virginia and it could be a good night for blankenship, still serving a probation sentence because of the federal misdemeanor charge. his aides tell us the probation is scheduled to end at midnight tonight. >> ryan nobles in west virginia. joining our panel is washington examiner reporter and cnn contributor selena zito with...

Be part of it. politicians who want that vote are going to practice the same kind of politics. >> yeah. well, two points i agree with both of you. the first point is just that this is the politics of tribalism, and this is the politics of a group of people who i agree kind of feel aggrieved, and so blankenship is in many ways not that different from donald trump. that's what really differentiates someone who says yes, i embrace. i agree with donald trump versus someone who feels to voters like a good surrogate, actually, in that state. and the other thing is this is kind of funny. it's ironic ...

>> this is a guy who's been convicted, you know, i'm going to admit to you, i'm going to tell you, but in reality, in the ballot box, it's just them and god, i think a lot may vote for blankenship. >> so on the other hand, there are people who said to me just moments ago, i'm not willing to put a murderer in office and they said that blankenship has blood on his hands. well, in fact, we found one guy who was a co-worker who was inside the mind the day it exploded. the day of that infamous explosion that blankenship was found responsible for. listen to what they said. what did you think when yo...

The primarieprimaries. donald trump manages to secure that race throughout the entire primary campaign with about 35%. >> still he won on the republican ticket. wouldn't you say that's a majority of the republican party? >> sure. there are a lot of trump supporters that really hate the republican party and don't usually vote for republicans. so that's exactly why republicans in these races or the republican party at large is in this kind of tug of war between trying to talk about the things that they want the republican party to be which are sometimes not oftentimes not what the base voters, t...