President Trump on Monday declared West Virginia senate candidate Don Blankenship is unelectable, and asked Republican voters to vote for either of the other two GOP candidates.

“To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can’t win the General Election in your State...No way! Remember Alabama. Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!”



To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference. Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can’t win the General Election in your State...No way! Remember Alabama. Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018



Trump was reminding voters about the controversial Roy Moore, who won the GOP nomination but then lost in the general election, costing Republicans what had been seen as an easy seat to hold.

Blankenship, a former coal CEO, criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in an ad last week for creating millions of jobs for “China people” and in turn receiving tens of millions of dollars from his “China family," a reference to his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Blankenship is also a convicted criminal that spent a year in prison following a guilty charge in a mine safety case.