{"id":1920420,"date":"2023-04-27T19:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-governor-launches-challenge-to-joe-manchin-for-pivotal-us-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:12:38","slug":"west-virginia-governor-launches-challenge-to-joe-manchin-for-pivotal-us-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-governor-launches-challenge-to-joe-manchin-for-pivotal-us-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Governor Launches Challenge to Joe Manchin for Pivotal US Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwest-virginia-governor-launches-challenge-to-joe-manchin-for-pivotal-us-senate-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0427\/2bb42eff-4b8c-416a-ae58-63f2d692b3a9\/audio.mp3?length=2282157&#038;duration=190\"><\/div>\n<h2>West Virginia Governor Challenges Longtime Incumbent for Senate Seat<\/h2>\n<p>Exciting news from West Virginia! Republican Governor Jim Justice has thrown his hat in the ring for a U.S. Senate seat, challenging longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">incumbent<\/a> Senator Joe Manchin. Justice, a former Democrat with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">net worth<\/a> over $1 billion, has been governor since 2017 and is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perdue-files-with-fec-leaning-heavily-toward-challenging-raphael-warnock-in-2022-senate-race\/\" title=\"Perdue Files With FEC, \u2018Leaning Heavily Toward\u2019 Challenging Raphael Warnock In 2022 Senate Race\">formally announce<\/a> his campaign soon.<\/p>\n<h3>A Battle for the Ages<\/h3>\n<p>Manchin, who has held the seat since 2010, has not yet announced his re<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">-election bid<\/a>. But he&#8217;s confident in his ability to win any race he enters, saying, &#8220;I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollster-reveals-how-voters-graded-bidens-press-conference-he-torched-his-message-of-unity\/\" title=\"Pollster Reveals How Voters Graded Biden\u2019s Press Conference: He \u2018Torched His Message Of Unity\u2019\">laser focused<\/a> on doing the job West Virginians elected me to do.&#8221; Republicans are hoping to flip the seat and regain control of the Senate after losing it in 2020.<\/p>\n<h3>A Switch to the GOP<\/h3>\n<p>Justice won his first race for governor as a Democrat but switched to the GOP after taking office, announcing his decision at a rally for then-President Donald Trump. He&#8217;ll face several Republican challengers in the primary, including electrician Christopher Rose.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Will Come Out on Top?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s sure to be a close race in this red state, where Manchin has survived several challenges in the past. But with Justice&#8217;s wealth and political experience, he could give the incumbent a run for his money. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting race!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia\u2019s governor has launched a bid for a U.S. Senate seat representing the state, in a challenge to longtime incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) Republican Gov. Jim Justice filed papers with the Federal Election Commission and is reportedly expected to formally announce his campaign later on April 27. Justice, 72, a former Democrat with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1920421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7727,4173,7189,5989,4426,20024,5839,3740,5468,3841],"class_list":["post-1920420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-challenge","tag-governor","tag-joe","tag-launches","tag-manchin","tag-pivotal","tag-seat","tag-senate","tag-virginia","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}