If the endangered Democratic senator runs again, he could face West Virginia’s popular governor. But Justice has to survive a primary challenge.
Jim Justice and his ubiquitous English bulldog, Babydog.The heaviest of low-hanging fruit for Republicans seeking to flip control of the U.S. Senate in 2024 is’s seat in West Virginia, a state that has trended massively toward the GOP as the moderate-to-conservative Democrat has held on by his fingernails. Manchin hasn’t announced another Senate bid, but if he does, the road to reelection just got steeper.
High jinks aside, Justice is a shrewd politician who definitely has some history with Manchin. The senator reportedly talked the crazy-rich coal operator Justice into running for governor in 2016 as a Democrat, continuing a tradition of right-leaning Democratic governors that included Manchin himself.
Right now, Manchin’s best hope for survival if he does run for reelection is that Justice will be taken down or severely damaged by primary opponent Alex Mooney, a five-term U.S. House member. Mooney is best known for wielding a Donald Trump endorsement to
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