{"id":1920445,"date":"2023-04-27T19:29:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-justice-is-officially-coming-for-joe-manchins-seat\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:29:54","slug":"jim-justice-is-officially-coming-for-joe-manchins-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-justice-is-officially-coming-for-joe-manchins-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Justice Is Officially Coming for Joe Manchin&#8217;s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fjim-justice-is-officially-coming-for-joe-manchins-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=1920445&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>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tGov. Jim Justice (R., W.Va.) \/ YouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Republican West Virginia governor Jim Justice on Thursday formally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeSherman\/status\/1651592019779756033?s=20\"><span>entered<\/span><\/a><span> the race to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D.), who trails the governor in polls of Democrats in the state.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Justice, who was a Democrat before switching parties in August 2017, filed paperwork for a Senate run Thursday but has not formally made an announcement. He has served as governor since 2017 and is widely seen as the most formidable challenger to the centrist Manchin, who is also expected to face a primary challenger. A February poll <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/02\/15\/gop-poll-justice-manchin-00082899\"><span>found<\/span><\/a><span> Justice beating Manchin by 10 points in a head-to-head race, with other West Virginia Republicans losing to the Democrat.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Among Manchin\u2019s own party, Justice garners more support than the senator. He received 52 percent support from Democrats to Manchin\u2019s 49 percent in a Morning Consult <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3958918-jim-justice-has-higher-approval-than-manchin-among-west-virginia-democrats-poll\/\"><span>poll<\/span><\/a><span> this month. Justice\u2019s overall approval rating in the state is at 66 percent, while Manchin is at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3958918-jim-justice-has-higher-approval-than-manchin-among-west-virginia-democrats-poll\/\"><span>just<\/span><\/a><span> 38 percent. Justice first ran for governor as a Democrat and beat his Republican opponent. He then announced his party switch at a rally with then-president Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Facing an increasingly tough reelection bid, Manchin is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/joe-manchins-election-cycle-transformation-begins\/\"><span>positioning<\/span><\/a><span> himself as an opponent of President Joe Biden\u2019s high spending\u2014despite orchestrating Biden&#8217;s trillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act. The Democrat helped negotiate its terms last summer and is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/manchin-linked-company-could-reap-millions-from-climate-law\/\"><span>considered<\/span><\/a><span> the bill\u2019s <\/span><span>&#8220;chief architect.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jim Justice (R., W.Va.) \/ YouTube Republican West Virginia governor Jim Justice on Thursday formally entered the race to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D.), who trails the governor in polls of Democrats in the state. Justice, who was a Democrat before switching parties in August 2017, filed paperwork for a Senate run Thursday but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1920446,"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":[544],"tags":[4726,6239,7189,4901,9691,5093,5839],"class_list":["post-1920445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-coming","tag-jim","tag-joe","tag-justice","tag-manchins","tag-officially","tag-seat"],"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\/1920445","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}