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The TAKE with Rick Klein

Trumpism may yet again overwhelm even President Donald Trump.

Tuesday’s primaries — scattered across four states Trump carried in 2016, all but one of which Barack Obama carried at least once – have proven to be fertile ground for tactics that Trump rode to the presidency.

The president’s last-minute attempt to spike the candidacy of Don Blankenship in West Virginia might suggest a lesson learned the hard way, in Alabama late last year.

But as Blankenship promises to be “Trumpier than Trump,” he’s a threat to win the GOP Senate nomination in large part because of anger and resentment directed at the federal government and the Republican establishment.

Blankenship, a multi-millionaire who is still on probation for his conviction for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards, is closing out his campaign spinning conspiracy theories about the disaster that led to his imprisonment. He’s also hurling racially-tinged accusations at Senate Majority…

In Indiana, a state that’s known for its “Hoosier hospitality”, one of the nation’s most bitter and personal primaries is coming to a head today.

West Virginia House candidate Ayne Amjad says her experience as a doctor will help improve health care in West Virginia.

“I think it’s 50/50,” Giuliani told ABC News regarding the possibility of a subpoena for President Trump. “But I got to prepare for that 50 percent.”

The TAKE with Rick Klein

If there are storms a-coming, as Stormy Daniels herself warned President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” it’s still sunny out there for the president inside his own party.

As primary season starts in earnest with four states voting tomorrow, there are few policy fault lines inside Republican primaries, but plenty of novel ways to argue over the true “MAGA” mantle.

In West Virginia’s Senate race, former coal baron Don Blankenship was pointedly anti-endorsed by Donald Trump Jr., yet responded by informing him that “your dad will have no better supporter” in Washington. His two major rivals would beg to differ.

In Indiana, one of the three major candidates, Rep. Todd Rokita, has campaigned with a cardboard cutout of Trump and was forced to take down yard signs that falsely suggested he was endorsed by the president. The other two candidates are aboard the Trump train, too.

Even in Ohio, where Gov. John Kasich’s lieutenant governor, Mary Taylor,…

With the shakeup of the president’s legal team, he is now all-in on a new strategy to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller: fight, delay, vilify.

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer slammed Giuliani’s performance in a “This Week” interview

Gina Haspel will be on Capitol Hill this week for confirmation hearings.

Trump could decline to answer questions, citing the Fifth Amendment, he said.

The president railed against the nation’s immigration laws during a tax reform event in Cleveland.