Zach Shrewsbury, a first-time candidate with a bootstrap grassroots campaign, says he’ll win red state US Senate race by earning votes one-by-one, door-by-door.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—He’s a 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran known across West Virginia’s hills and valleys as a volunteer who digs ditches in flooded towns, who distributes coats to the homeless, who speaks about disenfranchisement of working people and despoilment of rivers by elected representatives beholden to corporate interests.
That’s the only way, one-by-one, doorstep-by-doorstep, day-by-day, a Democrat who openly identifies as a socialist can win any office in deep red West Virginia, and that’s the way Zach Shrewsbury says he’ll pull off one of 2024’s biggest electoral upsets when he defeats a heavily favored Republican—either Gov. Jim Justice or Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.)—to succeed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in the U.S. Senate.
“For the first time in a long time, West Virginia, we have an election that can change the outcomes for our home, not the same-old, same-old of getting table scraps and crumbs from the political elite,” Mr. Shrewsbury said in a Morgantown co-op art gallery and music…
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