Despite accident the Republican primary in a abroad third-place, bedevilled ex-coal baron Don Blankenship appear Monday that he will abide his bid for U.S. Senate as a third-party candidate, admitting it's cryptic if the move violates West Virginia's "sore loser" law. "The Secretary's position is that Mr. Blankenship is not acceptable to run afresh in the accepted acclamation for the United States Senate," Queen told the Charleston Gazette-Mail in a adventure appear Saturday. Earlier this year, the Legislature adequate accompaniment acclamation cipher by allegorical that candidates who abort to win their party's primary cannot become a applicant for the aforementioned appointment through a choice or affidavit process. On Blankenship's third-party antagonism announcement, Morrisey attack backer Nachama Soloveichik said Morrisey "is the alone applicant who can defeat Senator Joe Manchin and who will angle with President Trump for West Virginians.