Today West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin put out a video officially announcing that he will not be seeking reelection to his Senate seat next year.
To the West Virginians who have put their trust in me and fought side by side to make our state better – it has been an honor of my life to serve you. Thank you. My statement on my political future: pic.twitter.com/dz8JuXAyTL
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 9, 2023
Manchin has been active in West Virginia politics for as long as some of our readers have been alive, having first been elected to the WV House of Delegates in 1982 before moving up to the WV Senate in 1986. More recently Manchin served as a highly popular governor of The Mountain State from 2005-2010, when he made the transition to his current seat on the US Senate.
Manchin had been seen as a longshot to retain his job in the Senate, largely because of the extreme rightward lurch that West Virginia has taken over the past few years; the odds of a Democrat winning reelection to the US Senate from a state that went 68.62% for Donald Trump in 2020 always seemed quite long, especially with current WV Governor Jim Justice already having announced his…
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