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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.
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 ...
In 2019, rather than make another run for governor in the 2020 election and take on Justice, who had become a rival, Manchin decided to remain a senator. That decision proved fruitful as he ...
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.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) deflected answering a question about whether he still identifies as a Democrat as questions mount over his political future. “I identify as an American,” Manchin ...
The last Democrat to hold the office of governor in Missouri was Jay Nixon, who comfortably won re-election in 2012. In 2020 , Parson won by 16.41%, the first time a Republican gubernatorial candidate won by a double-digit margin since John Ashcroft's landslide re-election in 1988 .
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 ...
Four candidates are on the Nov. 5 general election ballot for Missouri governor: Mike Kehoe, Crystal Quade, Bill Slantz and Paul Lehmann.