{"id":2021809,"date":"2023-09-04T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-mayor-steve-williams-becomes-first-democrat-to-enter-governors-race\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:25:09","slug":"west-virginia-mayor-steve-williams-becomes-first-democrat-to-enter-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-mayor-steve-williams-becomes-first-democrat-to-enter-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Mayor Steve Williams is the first Democrat to join the governor&#8217;s race."},"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%2Fwest-virginia-mayor-steve-williams-becomes-first-democrat-to-enter-governors-race%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=2021809&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>Democratic Mayor Steve Williams Announces Bid for Governor\u200d of West \u2064Virginia<\/h2>\n<p>Mayor \u2063Steve Williams of Huntington, West Virginia, has made an exciting \u2062announcement &#8211; he is running\u200b for governor! Williams, who \u200dcomes from a family of coal\u2064 miners, \u200bshared\u2064 his\u2062 plans during\u200c the &#8220;United Mine Workers of America 84th Annual Labor Day Celebration.&#8221;\u2062 This makes him the first and only Democrat to enter the race so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the grandson of two coal miners, and I\u2019m standing on their shoulders,\u201d\u200d Williams\u200d proudly declared. \u201cThis grandson of two coal miners is going to be running for governor next year!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Williams is the sole Democrat to\u200b signal\u200b his \u2063intent,\u200c it&#8217;s worth noting\u200d that Democrat Ben Salango, who ran \u200din the\u2062 previous \u200dgubernatorial race, has decided not to seek the executive \u200cseat. If no other Democrats \u200bjoin the race, it will be \u200bthe fewest number of Democrats running for governor in at\u200b least 75 years.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2063 plans to file \u200bthe necessary paperwork to officially enter the race \u200cin \u200bthe \u2062first week of October. \u200cOn the \u200dRepublican side, seven candidates\u2063 have already filed pre-candidacy papers, including West Virginia Attorney General Patrick \u2063Morrisey.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-candidacy papers allow campaigns to begin \u2064fundraising \u200dand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-mayor-steve-williams-becomes-first-democrat-to-enter-governors-race\/\" title=\"West Virginia Mayor Steve Williams is the first Democrat to join the governor's race.\">require\u200d regular \u200dcampaign finance reports<\/a>. To \u2063become an official candidate, individuals must\u200c file a separate certificate of announcement and pay a $1,500 fee. The filing period begins in January.<\/p>\n<p>The current governor, Jim Justice, will \u200dbe\u200c terming \u2064out after serving two consecutive terms and is\u2063 now running \u200cfor\u200c the U.S.\u200c Senate. However, he is also facing a \u2063lawsuit from the \u2063Justice Department for fines\u200b owed \u200bdue \u2063to violations\u2064 at his coal companies.<\/p>\n<p>In the Republican Senate primary race, Justice holds a significant\u2063 lead over Rep. Alex Mooney. Both candidates\u200b are seen as strong contenders to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin, \u2064who has been targeted by Republicans for being too liberal for West \u200cVirginia.<\/p>\n<p>As for Manchin, he has not yet announced\u200c whether\u200d he will run\u200b for reelection. There are rumors that he may seek \u200dhigher office, possibly\u200d on a third-party ticket for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<h3>General \u200cElection\u200b Matchup<\/h3>\n<p>In a recent poll, \u200cJustice holds 51% of the likely votes\u200b in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-dominates-in-2024-general-election-odds\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Dominates in 2024 General Election Odds\">general election matchup<\/a> against Manchin, who sits at 38%. In a matchup between Mooney and\u2064 Manchin, the race is much closer, with Manchin receiving 45% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-undeterred-by-polls-says-she-welcomes-ron-desantis-to-2024-race\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley, undeterred by polls, says she welcomes Ron DeSantis to 2024 race\">voter support compared<\/a> to Mooney&#8217;s 41%.<\/p>\n<p>For more \u200dinformation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> \u2062to visit The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Mayor Steve Williams of Huntington, West Virginia, has declared his candidacy for governor, making him the sole representative from his party in the race. Announcing his decision at the &#8220;United Mine Workers of America 84th Annual Labor Day Celebration,&#8221; Williams aims to secure the governorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2021810,"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-2021809","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\/2021809","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=2021809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}