{"id":2009060,"date":"2023-08-23T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/club-for-growth-ad-slams-jim-justice-for-ties-to-the-dc-swamp\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:52:03","slug":"club-for-growth-ad-slams-jim-justice-for-ties-to-the-dc-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/club-for-growth-ad-slams-jim-justice-for-ties-to-the-dc-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Club for Growth ad criticizes Jim Justice for his connections to the DC &#8216;swamp&#8217;."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fclub-for-growth-ad-slams-jim-justice-for-ties-to-the-dc-swamp%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=2009060&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--><h2>The Club for Growth Slams Gov. Jim Justice \u200dfor Ties to\u200b McConnell and the \u200c&#8221;Swamp&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The Club for Growth has released a powerful advertisement criticizing Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) for his connections to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the infamous\u2064 Washington &#8220;swamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conservative group, which has\u2062 endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) in the 2024 West Virginia\u200b Senate election, takes aim\u200b at the \u200cpopular \u200cgovernor in a compelling video that portrays him as &#8220;the establishment&#8217;s hand-picked\u2062 candidate for Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Exposing the &#8220;Swamp&#8221;<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is the definition of the swamp,&#8221; Justice declares at the beginning of\u2063 the video, setting the stage \u2064for the accusations that follow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The narrator then accuses Justice of \u200cbeing deeply entangled in the Washington &#8220;swamp,&#8221; stating, &#8220;Jim Justice, the establishment\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-group-of-55-florida-sheriffs-endorse-marco-rubios-senate-reelection-bid\/\" title=\"Bipartisan Group of 55 Florida Sheriffs Endorse Marco Rubio's Senate Reelection Bid\">hand-picked candidate<\/a> for Senate. Personally recruited by Mitch McConnell. Private texts,\u200b love letters, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/club-for-growth-ad-slams-jim-justice-for-ties-to-the-dc-swamp\/\" title=\"Club for Growth ad criticizes Jim Justice for his connections to the DC 'swamp'.\">swamp-stained campaign cash<\/a>. \u200bPayback for the $100,000 Justice\u2019s family gave to help McConnell? A down payment on Justice\u2019s loyalty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ad concludes with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard\/\" title=\"Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns\">powerful statement<\/a>, asserting, &#8220;Who knows what deals \u2063were cut, but we do know Justice is McConnell\u2019s man, not West Virginia\u2019s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement, shared exclusively with the Hill, will be aired\u2062 before and during the Republican presidential debate on Fox News in West Virginia. The Club \u200bfor Growth \u200bhas\u200d invested $9,000 in this ad buy, ensuring its message reaches a\u2064 wide audience.<\/p>\n<h3>Justice&#8217;s Front-Runner \u2064Status and Controversies<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being the front-runner in the Republican primary as a popular incumbent governor, Justice \u200chas faced \u2064scrutiny over his family&#8217;s business and personal finances. He and Mooney are both vying to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the heavily \u2064Republican \u200dstate.<\/p>\n<p>An ECU poll conducted in May reveals\u2064 that Justice \u2062currently leads Mooney in the Republican primary with 53% support \u200dcompared to Mooney&#8217;s 12%. The same poll also shows Justice leading Manchin in a head-to-head matchup\u200b with 54% to \u200d32%, while Mooney narrowly edges out Manchin with 41% to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has not confirmed whether he will seek another term in 2024 but has stated that \u2062he will make a decision by the end of the year. The West Virginia \u200cDemocrat has not ruled out a potential third-party run for president in 2024, confidently stating, \u2063&#8221;If I get in a race, I\u2019m gonna win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more\u2062 from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Club for Growth criticized Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) in an ad, linking him to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Washington &#8220;swamp.&#8221; Endorsing Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) for the 2024 West Virginia Senate race, the conservative group released a video portraying the governor negatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2009060","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}