‘Cocaine Mitch’ McConnell’s Campaign Twitter Account Trolls Blankenship Over Election Loss
After it was announced that controversial West Virginia GOP primary candidate Don Blankenship would lose his race, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s official campaign Twitter account posted a photo of the senator mocking his “Cocaine Mitch” nickname.
Blankenship, who called McConnell “Cocaine Mitch” in a campaign ad that went viral, focused his campaign on attacking the Senate Majority Leader for his love of “Chinapeople” and his “China family,” which was a racial attack against the lawmaker’s wife, who was born in Taiwan. McConnell got the last laugh, however, as his team posted the following photo — which was inspired by the Netflix show Narcos — on Twitter once it was clear Blankenship would not win:
Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship. #WVSen pic.twitter.com/TV1ETgQdmu
— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) May 9, 2018
Media figures responded to the post with both cheering and cringing as McConnell embraced his snorting alter-ego. The account for the show Narcos even got in the mix:
Low blow, Mitch. https://t.co/5tk2Kf8X7Q
— Narcos (@NarcosNetflix) May 9, 2018
That’s Cocaine Mitch, if you’re nasty. https://t.co/clPtVtaEQp
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) May 9, 2018
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 9, 2018
HELL YES
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 9, 2018
When Don goes low, Mitch gets high
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) May 9, 2018
Cocaine Mitch is savage!
— Ryan | weather.us (@RyanMaue) May 9, 2018
You are not using it right.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 9, 2018
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) May 9, 2018
Strong move, #CocaineMitch ?
— Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) May 9, 2018
A Mitch McConnell Narcos reference! https://t.co/zvL1LX6Cim
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) May 9, 2018
Is that a cloud of cocaine? That’s a cloud of cocaine! https://t.co/e5tnlswgOg
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) May 9, 2018
DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD https://t.co/zcmmrPrKzn
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) May 9, 2018
great tweet mitch — really! — but if you’re gonna joke about cocaine, maybe make an effort to end the drug war https://t.co/nA3SN0UZbc
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 9, 2018
here … is a thing? https://t.co/nfv83ybGVk
— Addy Baird ? (@addysue) May 9, 2018
Go home 2018, you’re drunk https://t.co/1iEKh5MYGi
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) May 9, 2018
dumbest timeline https://t.co/V2GuP0W162
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) May 9, 2018
Ethered https://t.co/x0tofmdQ5J
— Christian Schneider (@Schneider_CM) May 9, 2018
i’m screaming https://t.co/on1h3uzTek
— David Mack (@davidmackau) May 9, 2018
How is this real life https://t.co/sz2w7hX5U7
— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) May 9, 2018
Oh, this is good Twitter. https://t.co/ExuabiMW7i
— Jim Lokay FOX 5 (@LokayFOX5) May 9, 2018
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