Tom DeLay believes President Donald Trump should butt out of the hotly contested Republican Senate primary in West Virginia.
"I was very disappointed to see the president get into this race," DeLay, a former GOP House majority leader, told hosts Miranda Khan, John Cardillo, and Gina Loudon on Newsmax TV's "America Talks Live."
"This race is way too close to call . . . Republicans should step back and stay out of primaries as much as they can."
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The president told West Virginians in a Monday morning tweet ahead of Tuesday's GOP Senate primary that voting for Don Blankenship would spell doom for Republicans.
"Remember Alabama," Trump warned, referring to Roy Moore's victory in last year's Alabama GOP Senate primary last year despite sexual misconduct allegations, only to lose the general election in a historic upset to Democrat Doug Jones.
Republicans believe they have a real chance to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in November, but the coal executive Blankenship, who spent a year in prison for a fatal mine mishap years ago, would sink those chances, they believe.
Further, Blankenship is thumbing his nose at establishment Republicans, calling out Senate Majority Leaguer Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as "cocaine Mitch."
But DeLay believes Blankenship was the victim of an overzealous judiciary.
"Blankenship was attacked by the judiciary just as Trump is being attacked now, just as I have been attacked," DeLay said, referring to his own conviction on an election law violation that was then overturned.
"He went to prison for a year for a misdemeanor . . . This man was incredibly unfairly treated by the judiciary and somebody needs to remind President Trump about that . . . The same thing happened to Roy Moore in Alabama.
"We cannot allow the politics of personal destruction to get involved in our elections without fighting back and pushing back."
DeLay is the author of "Revival! Revolution! Rebirth!: A Radical Call from the Former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives," written with Wallace Henley and published by WND Books.
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