Posted on 04/19/2023 4:07:26 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
The GOP push to knock out Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is on — 18 months before Election Day.
Republican group One Nation, which is aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is unloading more than $1 million on a campaign hitting Manchin for supporting Democrats' marquee party-line bill last year, according to details shared with POLITICO. Simultaneously, a strategist close to GOP Gov. Jim Justice said that the governor has made up his mind and will likely launch his Senate campaign before the end of the month.
Those two events will quickly animate the West Virginia race, which is key to the GOP’s path back to the upper chamber majority. Republicans are betting that Manchin’s deal with President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on climate, health care and taxes will damage his prospects in his red state, while Justice’s recruitment boosts their chances of picking up the seat.
Manchin is bristling on a near-daily basis at Biden’s implementation of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and keeps declining to support the president's reelection. But Republicans are making clear that last year's multibillion-dollar bill will be the centerpiece of their campaign to defeat him.
Splicing in clips of Manchin close to Biden during the law’s signing ceremony, the new ad push claims that “100,000 West Virginia jobs are at risk thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin falling in line with D.C. liberals to pass the Inflation Reduction Act.” And One Nation is signaling more is to come.
“The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will hurt Americans’ quality of life in a lot of ways, and One Nation will continue to advocate against bad policies,” said the group's president and CEO Steven Law.
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Justice probably is best to win as he’s already won two recent statewide elections. It’s time we play smart.
Great, a 73 year-old male Shelley Moore Capito.
Oh, yay! Yay! (jumping and clapping hands). More Republicans! Just what America needs!
Jimmy J is a really terrible leader. He may have an R after his name, but he is not conserving the constitution. Yuck.
Jim Justice is a walking piece of excrement. He switched parties to favor political winds. Why wouldn’t he do it again? There isn’t anything impressive about his political career but plenty to criticize like misuse of Federal COVID funds. Leave well enough alone.
Mancini voted for the bill? So did many Republicans and they allowed it to go to a vote. What liars.
Why would a Conservative want Manchib to join the Pubviea, His record on voting Conservative is zero!
A.F.T.
West Virginia has more white people on welfare than any place on the planet outside the UK. There probably hasn’t been a true Republican elected there in more than a hundred years.
The state has the socioeconomic structure of a Third World tourist destination … but without the nice weather or any tourist attractions.
GOP = loosers party.
The likelihood is that the pubbies will throw a metric crapload of money at Manchin and chase him from the stage. But instead of replacing him with a conservative they will succeed in setting the stage for a spineless pubbie or an even more extreme leftist.
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