Jonathan Stuart Porter, 41, was in custody Sunday. Garren told the Associated Press that Porter attacked Ojeda after asking the candidate to put a bumper sticker on Porter's truck. "So I get another bumper sticker, I walk to the front, he tells me where he wants it, I kneel down and as I'm kneeling down putting the bumper sticker on, that's the last thing I remember other than pretty much coming to where my head's on a tree stump and I'm spitting blood," Ojeda added. While State Police do not have any indication that another person was involved in planning the attack, Ojeda believes this is just another example of dirty Logan politics. "Though this attack seems to be politically motivated, Richard is as tough as woodpecker lips, as he often says and he will pull through this," it reads. "I've spent years dealing with the Taliban and Al Qaeda I'm not scared of these people," Ojeda said. Ojeda wanted to return home in time for Tuesday's primary election and planned to delay surgery until later this week. UPDATE (10:37 a.m. 5/9/16) 
 
 West Virginia State Deputies told 13 News Jonathan Porter is facing three felony charges including- malicious assault, attempt to commit a malicious assault and felony destruction of property. Jail records do not list attorney information for Porter. Deputies will continue their investigation today including interviewing witnesses. UPDATE (6:25 a.m. 5/9/16) 
 
 West Virginia Senate candidate Richard Ojeda is still in the trauma unit at CAMC General Hospital in Charleston this morning. His goal is to be out on Tuesday still helping to rally votes. UPDATE (8:10 p.m. 5/8/16) 
 
 West Virginia Senator Ark Kirkendoll, D-Logan, released a statement about the assault of his opponent, Richard Ojeda: 
 
 "I was informed that my opponent was physically assaulted and injured at a political function today. "I do not now, nor have I ever, condoned violence," Kirkendoll said. "It has no place in our political campaigns or in our communities." Jonathan Porter, 41, was arrested Sunday and charged with malicious assault in the Logan County attack, West Virginia State Police spokesman M. T. Baylous told The Washington Post. West Virginia Southwestern Regional Jail 
 
 The attacker spun out in the gravel, and when a second neighbor tried to block his exit with an ATV, the driver rammed the quad several times, Holden said, adding that the man eventually ran over it — along with a second ATV whose driver also tried to block him. [The West Virginia primary] 
 
 Ojeda suffered multiple fractures to his head and face and was transported to a hospital in Charleston, according to a message posted on Ojeda's campaign page. / Updated By Tim Stelloh 
 
 West Virginia state Senate candidate Richard Ojeda was brutally beaten during a cookout Sunday — just two days before his primary — and nearly run over with a pickup truck, Ojeda told NBC News. (Facebook) 
 
 Richard Ojeda was doing what any state Senate candidate would be doing just days before his primary election: Attending a cookout. Ojeda said witnesses told him that he was kicked and struck with brass knuckles, although Holden said he found no evidence of the weapon and Porter denied using them. When the man tried to run over Ojeda with his vehicle, several bystanders stepped in to stop the assault. [Campaign 2016 is on a dangerous descent] 
 
 Ojeda's primary opponent, incumbent state Sen. Ark Kirkendoll (D), said in a statement that he wished Ojeda "a speedy recovery," the State Journal reported.
– Politics can be rough stuff, but for one West Virginia Senate candidate it got downright violent. Authorities say retired Army officer Richard Ojeda, a Democrat running in Tuesday's primary, was brutally beaten by a man wearing brass knuckles at a political cookout on Sunday, the AP reports. Per the Washington Post, Jonathan Porter, 41, was arrested and charged with malicious assault for the attack, which left Ojeda—who's known Porter since they were kids—with multiple head and face fractures and a concussion. And while officials aren't sure what the motive was, Ojeda thinks he knows. "This was premeditated and there was a reason the guy did this," he wrote Sunday on his campaign's Facebook page. Ojeda, who has been campaigning against the region's corruption and poverty, adds, per NBC News, that "the moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one." Per the State Journal, Ojeda says Porter approached him at the cookout, asked for a bumper sticker, then attacked. "As I'm kneeling down putting the bumper sticker on [Porter's truck], that's the last thing I remember, other than … coming to where my head's on a tree stump and I'm spitting blood," Ojeda says. Witnesses say after the beating, Porter hopped in his truck and tried to run Ojeda over before bystanders stopped him; Porter then fled, surrendering a few hours later. Ojeda, 45, tells the State Journal he'd received menacing phone calls recently, including one that said, "You're going to wind up dead floating in the Guyandotte River." But the man described in a Facebook post as "tough as woodpecker lips" says he's dealt with al-Qaeda and the Taliban and writes he's "now even more dedicated to the cause. This doesn't scare me." Porter has also been charged with malicious attempted assault and felony destruction of property. (Voting in West Virginia? No selfies in the booth.)