One week after the most recent election, Congressman Alex Mooney announced a long-anticipated 2024 run for U.S. Senate on Tuesday on MetroNews “Talkline.”
“It’s been talked about a lot, but I’m going to announce. I’m announcing it right now that I’m running for the U.S. Senate,” said Mooney, a Republican. “I’m all in.”
That means the race is already shaping up for a 2024 challenge to Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who has been in office since 2010.
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the Republican challenger to Manchin in 2018, has also signaled an interest in running for Senate again. And Gov. Jim Justice, who is term limited past 2024, has also mused about a continued role in “national office.”
“I do think it’s important to let folks know I’m running right away as they make their decisions for what they want to do,” Mooney said today. “I’ve heard at least five other names on the Republican side. The Democrats will have to choose. I mean, Joe Manchin will have to win his primary if he runs in 2024 also.”
Mooney said he is motivated to run because he believes Manchin has been a key to the Biden administration’s agenda. And Mooney says he is dissatisfied with the makeup for the Senate, which Democrats are in line to control again.
Mooney announces for Senate, revving up race to take on Manchin
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Manchin now has a choice between putting the nation and his own political survival first, or following the Democrat party sheep down the electoral slaughterhouse shoots that lead to their own destruction in 2024, when the pain of the Biden policy failures gets so great that even the most modest loyal democrat will jump out of the skin peeling fryer of our current Mr. Potato Head President. He can continue to enrich himself in tie vote breaking bartering that will cost him the next election, or man up and do the right thing for the long term success of the nation. The Democrats have so turned up the heat on their slow boiling pot of creeping socialism where by 2024 only the dead Democrat frogs will not have jumped out of their pots of political persecutions.
I’m sure Manchin will survive, the Demonrats have mastered the art of election theft, a skill they have honed over a century. Now they have the technology and the media on their side. I’m not going to hold my breath until…
God.. I hope not.
He will like always, put his OWN survival first..