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If Manchin tries for a return to the governor's office, he'd face an election rematch with Republican Patrick Morrisey and an awkward campaign showdown with Democrat Steve Williams, the mayor of ...
Manchin, 76, served as West Virginia governor from 2005 to 2010, when he won a special election to fill a Senate seat left vacant by the death of legendary Democrat Robert Byrd. Manchin won a full ...
Manchin — a conservative Democrat who served as the state’s governor from 2005 to 2010 — has recently been rumored to be mulling a possible bid for his old job, a race he could enter only as ...
And there’s still time, albeit shrinking, to mull potential runs for governor, the Senate or even the U.S. presidency. After recently switching his party affiliation from Democrat to independent, the 76-year-old Manchin is content to leave the Senate in January “and be able to hold a more normal life, if you will.”
In 2003, Manchin announced his intention to challenge incumbent Democratic governor Bob Wise in the 2004 Democratic primary. [46] Wise decided not to seek reelection after a scandal, [ 47 ] and Manchin won the Democratic primary and general election by large margins.
Many questioned whether he could win against the immensely popular Gov. Jim Justice, the Republican Senate nominee who Manchin helped recruit to run for governor as a Democrat in 2016.
Manchin, who still plans to caucus with Democrats in the Senate, said his colleagues were only “surprised it took this long,” and that the president “understood” why he was making this choice.
Manchin is characterized as a moderate to conservative senator. His noted opposition to several issues within the Democratic Party agenda—including access to abortion, firearm regulation, and anti-business legislation—have garnered him criticism from within the party, although he has supported a majority of Joe Biden's nominations [3] and voted with him nearly 89% of the time, according to ...