{"id":1136,"date":"2022-11-15T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T15:52:28","slug":"west-virginia-democrat-senator-already-has-a-2024-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/west-virginia-democrat-senator-already-has-a-2024-challenger\/njackson\/2022\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Democrat Senator Already Has a 2024 Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Republicans are looking forward to 2024 now that official projections reveal the GOP fell short of its goal to re-take the Senate this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the expected “red wave” turned out to be more of a “red ripple” conservatives refuse to be knocked down for long. Republicans are already setting their sights on which vulnerable Democrats to target during the next election cycle in hopes of turning the upper chamber red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early reports indicate West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin should expect to find himself within the GOP’s crosshairs in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact Sen. Manchin has sided with Republicans more than any other Democrat lawmaker, strategists are predicting that won’t stop Mitch McConnell from pouring millions of dollars into West Virginia next cycle to flip Manchin\u2019s seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Virginia Attorney General and failed 2018 Senate hopeful Patrick Morrisey has already been named a likely challenger to seek Manchin’s seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While speaking to The Hill<\/a><\/em>, Morrisey said Manchin lost significant political capital when he voted in favor of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which included major components of President Biden\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchin stonewalled President Joe Biden’s original Build Back Better plan but ultimately was the deciding vote for the renegotiated Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSen. Manchin deeply disappointed West Virginians and let them down tremendously when he supported the \u2018Build Back Broke\u2019 bill last summer. That legislation really hit our state very hard. You can dress up the pig any way you want but most people in West Virginia understand that that bill is going to hurt us,\u201d Morrisey told the outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe let the air out of his balloon and it\u2019s not going to be so easy to pump it back up,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morrisey, who is \u201cevaluating options\u201d about what to do in 2024, said \u201cwe\u2019re looking very closely at the Senate race.\u201d  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Morrisey and his team estimated they will have at least $12 million to spend on a Senate Republican primary alone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI learned a lot from a past experience in a terrible political environment. The environment in 2024 is going to be much, much stronger\u201d for Republicans, he predicted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Morrisey narrowly lost his bid to unseat Manchin in 2018 by 3 percentage points or about 19,000 votes, which turned out to be closer than what the polls indicated before Election Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/em> also lists Gov. Jim Justice (R) and Rep. Alex Mooney (R) as other potential challengers to Manchin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, on Tuesday Rep. Alex Mooney, R, W.Va., announced that he will run for Senate in 2024 in a bid to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Listen in to @HoppyKercheval<\/a> today. I\u2019ll be on at 10am and have an important announcement about the future of our state.<\/p>— Alex Mooney (@MooneyforWV) November 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>