{"id":325,"date":"2023-03-24T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T22:01:44","slug":"report-wv-gov-jim-justice-likely-to-run-for-manchin-u-s-senate-seat-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/report-wv-gov-jim-justice-likely-to-run-for-manchin-u-s-senate-seat-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: WV Gov. Jim Justice Likely to Run for Manchin U.S. Senate Seat in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Republicans may be about to get some very good news! GOP West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice &#8211; a former Democrat &#8211; is reportedly very likely to announce he will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin in 2024. Justice would be almost a shoe-in to win that race, and very well could result in Manchin not even seeking re-election. He is very popular in the state, and West Virginia is now one of the most Republican states in the country. Manchin has managed to survive the last two elections because of weak GOP Candidates. This would be very different. Let&#8217;s hope it turns out to be so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Polling shows Trump-ally &amp; WV Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimJusticeWV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JimJusticeWV<\/a> beating Manchin in 2024 senate race.<br><br>Trump won West Virginia by nearly 40% in 2020. Trump &amp; Republicans will win it again in 2024.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9SsdpCFvL5\">https:\/\/t.co\/9SsdpCFvL5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Bruesewitz \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alexbruesewitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexbruesewitz\/status\/1638973353741664257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Elated Senate Republicans believe they are on the cusp of landing their highest-profile recruit of the 2024 campaign: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2023\/01\/12\/kentucky-beshear-ranks-as-most-popular-democratic-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice, a Democrat-turned-Republican with sky-high approval<\/a>&nbsp;ratings, is increasingly expected to launch a bid for Sen.&nbsp;Joe Manchin\u2019s (D-W.Va.) seat after consulting with top party officials in Washington this month, according to a half-dozen GOP senators and aides. A Justice candidacy would notch two big wins for Republicans, breaking their losing streak in recruiting popular governors and reshaping next year\u2019s battleground map.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Republicans privately predict Justice may wait to enter the race until at least next month in order to have a full fundraising quarter. And though the timing is in flux, the GOP would be gobsmacked at this point if he did not run. . . . <\/em><\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/24\/manchin-senate-republicans-2024-00088620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans may be about to get some very good news! GOP West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice &#8211; a former Democrat &#8211; is reportedly very likely to announce he will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin in 2024. Justice would be almost a shoe-in to win that race, and very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,64,65,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-elections","category-jim-justice","category-joe-manchin","category-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}