An ex-con Senate candidate called himself 'Trumpier than Trump' -- and he's right
When President Barack Obama sought reelection in 2012, he faced no serious opposition from within his own party. After the bruising and extended primary battle against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama could largely ignore the 2012 primary and focus on his eventual Republican opponent.
That doesn’t mean all the Democratic primaries were walks. In two states, challengers to Obama managed to accrue more than 40 percent of the vote. One of those states was West Virginia, where a guy named Keith Judd managed to secure 40.7 percent of the vote. Judd wasn’t a traditional candidate, crisscrossing the state to gin up support.
He couldn’t. He was in prison.
Judd’s success was not about showing support for Judd. It was about showing dislike for the establishment, in the form of Obama. He was the beneficiary of a trend that has become important in understanding politics at the moment, a trend that has another former convict, Don Blankenship, in the hunt for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) in November.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/07/an-ex-con-senate-candidate-called-himself-trumpier-than-trump-and-hes-right
Yes he truly is "Trumpier than Trump" -- he's already done his prison time.
