Defeating Manchin: Republicans gear up to oust West Virginia Democrat

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) is eyeing Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) Senate seat for 2024.

Manchin is projected to be one of many GOP’s high targets in its quest to take again management of the Senate in 2024. He’s amongst a handful of Democratic senators elected in GOP-friendly states, comparable to West Virginia, Montana, and Ohio, that Republicans are plotting to flip.

Justice is the most recent vocal challenger to Manchin after Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) introduced he’d be operating in opposition to the Democrat on Nov. 15. A number of Republicans, together with Mooney, consider Manchin is simply too liberal for the folks he represents.

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Nonetheless, Justice just isn’t formally within the operating, he mentioned — but.

“I’m very critically contemplating operating for Senate,” Justice mentioned at a Tuesday press briefing, per the Hill. “Loads of considering and planning and every little thing and dialogue ongoing with my household and plenty of people, however severe, severe consideration. You’ll know actual quickly.”

The residents of West Virginia are with him “in no matter determination I make,” Justice added.

“I’m positive they’ll be proper with me, as they know with none query I’ll be proper with them,” the governor mentioned.

Republicans are lining as much as take Manchin’s seat simply weeks after the midterm elections, that are nonetheless not over with a Senate runoff in Georgia subsequent month. Democrats secured the Senate majority on the finish of the primary week with wins in Arizona and Nevada.

Republicans maintain the Home majority with 220 seats over the Democrats’ 213, a narrower lead than many polls and analyses projected.

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The pink wave anticipated to brush the nation missed its mark, because the GOP did not win or flip key seats in gubernatorial, Home, and Senate races throughout the nation, notably in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Hampshire.

A number of GOP leaders blame former President Donald Trump for the losses, believing that his endorsed “dangerous candidates” had been too excessive for voters and secured wins for the Democrats.