There’s an ironic twist to the GOP’s urgent effort to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin in 2024: if Republicans succeed, they might just wind up with their own version of Manchin.
There’s an ironic twist to the GOP’s urgent effort to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin in 2024: if Republicans succeed, they might just wind up with their own version of Manchin.
That’s because many Republicans see Justice not so differently from how many Democrats see Manchin: a figure who, for all his exasperating and perplexing moves, has a formidable gift for retail politics and a strong feel for the dynamics of his home state. “I want to win the seat,” Cramer said. “We need more Republicans in the Senate. We want to have the majority.”
A representative for Justice did not respond to requests for comment. Approached by The Daily Beast in the Capitol on Tuesday, Manchin declined to comment on Justice. But the senator indicated that he wasn’t looking away from the brewing GOP primary drama.There are still plenty of unanswered questions in West Virginia, which is the foundation of the GOP’s offensive effort to recapture the Senate in 2024.
“We’re a small state where everyone does seem to have a relationship with one another despite party lines,” he said. Even in his video to launch his campaign for Manchin’s seat, Justice did not even mention the incumbent Democrat by name. Republican activists pushed for a vote of no confidence in Justice or, in some cases, his resignation. The chair of the Kanawha County GOP, in Charleston, quipped that Justice had committed “random acts of Republicanism;” the state College Republicans said he had “not governed as a conservative Republican with a deep commitment to moving West Virginia forward and defending our values.”
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