seat in west virginia. he had ads like this. trump has created millions of jobs for mining people. mitch s china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. and this. politicians are running a lot of kracrazy ads. they blew up the coal mine and put me in prison. now they re running ads saying the coal mine blew up and i went to prison. one of my goals as u.s. senator will be to ditch cocaine mitch. look how he pops. he s got it. blankenship lost the republican primary back in may. he placed third behind patrick morrisey and evan jenkins. earlier this week he filed the paperwork to run as a third-party candidate. the state denied his bid. west virginia has a sore loser
i m not going to have to. the law they wrote another law just a couple months ago that takes effect in june trying to clarify their sore loser law. they obviously weren t comfortable with the sore loser law neil: so you re not a sore, bitter loser? no. i m a little bit bitter at the fact that people continue to report that i m a felon and continue to claim something that is obviously false. i think that, you know, i-75 from laura ingle and judge napolitano have to stop that. neil: we can go around and around on this, sir. i understand. we can go around on this. bottom line is that you are hell bent on getting on that ballot one way or the other even though the state says you can t? the state hasn t said we can t. the state hasn t decided that yet. when we finally filed the papers to be on the ballot
argument is that he would potentially hand the see to joe manchin. the other issue is, if you re going to have primaries, there ought to be a winner and a loser. if the loser doesn t make it let alone place third, he had no right to consider this, whether he s arguing it s on behalf of the people or not. sometimes the parties write laws to protect themselves and i think neil: if he had let s say a close race and he lost by a few votes. give it another shot. god bless him. let the people decide. neil: so where do you see this going? you think the state would uphold it? the state is very much in favor of the sore loser law. the state wants it to be republican or democrat. he would be a maverick republican and not the traditional republican. you might not call him a republican. neil: the democrats embraced it.
you know, he might not be so crazy. don blankenship running as a third-party candidate in a state that has a sore loser law and says he can t. according to judge andrew napolitano, he can. let me say that don blankenship is correct. i once inadvertently said on air that he was a convicted felon. he was not. he was acquitted of the felony charges against him. the only thing he was convicted of is a misdemeanomisdemeanor. he was convicted of the least of the charges against him. neil: so serving in jail doesn t make you a convicted fellow. that s correct. neil: which is his point. that s correct. i believe he s right to challenge in federal court, not in a west virginia state court the sore loser law and i think
almost any federal judge would invalidate it. the people have the right to vote for whom they want. the sore loser law is a self-protection written by the political parties and a disenfranchisement. and i may want joe manchin, the most conservative democrat in the senate. put aside who i want. the people of west virginia have the right to express their fact that they want somebody else and the political parties can t gang up together to prevent them from doing that. i think he has a very good argument. neil: that law, has it been challenged? i know they have it a couple other places. the idea, you lose the primary, you can t i believe that this i m sure he will file the challenge. he s determined. this is the first time it will have been challenged in west virginia. neil: without getting into politics and what effect it would have, the traditional