I absolutely suspected this from the get go.
An ex-con with the optics of a dissolute wino, he appears to be in it... to lose it ... for the GOP challenger by splitting the vote.
You can often tell a plant, as that person will run to the right (sometimes waaayy to the right) of the legitimate candidate, hoping to peel off disaffected conservatives with some newsy soundbites.
Dems do this because they cannot win on the issues, and they also use libertarians (and poser libertarians) to the same effect.
It's critically important to stay totally on-top-of such posers, and also to educate our conservative colleagues, friends, and relatives about the deceit.
“You can often tell a plant, as that person will run to the right”
Yes, but he actually took the act too far, as he portrayed the dimbulb’s caricature of the right .. with his talk of ‘China people’ as an example.
The left never lets up on their attempts at tying conservatives to the nutjobs.
And with WV going for Trump, they would desperately love to prove to everyone that WV is nothing but hayseed hillbillies who would rather vote for a bigot who sides with Trump than a ‘sensible’ incumbent democrat.