In a scene recounted in former White House staffer Cliff Sims’s new book, “Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House,” McConnell reportedly told Trump in February 2017 that Manchin was in his crosshairs.

“We’re going to do everything in our power to beat him when he comes up for reelection,” McConnell told the president, according to Sims. “We’re going to crush him like a grape.”

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Manchin, however, defied the odds, beating his GOP opponent last November by about three points. With the release of Sims’s book this week, the senator used the revelation of McConnell’s supposed comment as an opportunity for political trolling. (McConnell hasn’t commented on the veracity of Sims’s account.)

On Thursday afternoon, Manchin posted a picture of himself holding a jar of Woodbine Jams & Jellies, an all-natural small-batch jam company founded 14 years ago by two women in Richwood, W.Va.

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“I heard @senatemajldr wanted some #WV crushed grapes,” Manchin wrote on Twitter, “so I dropped some off at his office today.”

This is not the first time U.S. Senate politics in West Virginia has been punctuated with social-media clapback — and it was McConnell who landed the decisive digital blow last time.

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In last year’s Republican primary to see who would challenge Manchin, the most controversial and vocal candidate in the race was Don Blankenship, a former coal-mining executive who spent a year in prison following a deadly 2010 mine explosion. His campaign rhetoric featured nasty personal attacks on McConnell, including talk about the “China people” behind the Senate majority leader, a reference to his wife’s family. Blankenship also peddled a story about how a boat owned by a shipping company owned by McConnell’s father-in-law was intercepted going from Colombia to Europe with $7 million in cocaine on board.

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Stretching the story, Blankenship’s campaign began referring to the majority leader as “Cocaine Mitch.”

McConnell’s own campaign had the perfect response after Blankenship finished third in the primary, losing out to the Kentucky senator’s preferred candidate, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

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On the night of Blankenship’s loss, the Twitter account for McConnell’s campaign posted a photoshopped image of promotional art originally used for Netflix’s drug-smuggling series “Narcos.” The original image showed the actor who plays drug lord Pablo Escobar surrounded by white powder — presumably cocaine.

McConnell’s account simply photoshopped the senator’s face onto Escobar’s body to go along with some choice words.