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NEW: Trump Scores Endorsement From West Virginia’s Most Prominent Republican

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Governor Jim Justice (R-WV) has endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 bid for the presidency. Governor Justice took to Twitter to proclaim that “[t]he leadership and success exhibited by President Trump could not be more different than what we see today under Joe Biden. I support President Trump and firmly believe he will be our nominee and be re-elected as our next President.”

In an audio recording attached to the Twitter post, Justice could be heard saying ” If President Biden were my father, I would not allow him [to run]. There was no way that I could allow him to embarrass himself and continue on in this job. There’s no way. I mean, President Biden is really challenged and you know others are pulling the strings in every way, but anything we touch almost is becoming toxic, whether it be Afghanistan, the border, all the different things, the energy on and on and on…I think President Trump will be the nominee and I think he’ll be our next president, and I’m very hopeful about it.”

Jim Justice has been a very vocal supporter of the former president and posted back in May that “I’m proud to support President Donald J. Trump! President Trump secured our Southern Border, built a strong and prosperous economy, and supported West Virginia coal, gas, and oil to achieve American energy independence. West Virginia is Trump country.”

President Trump managed to win West Virginia by landslide margins in the 2016 and 2020 election. Similarly, Trump carried every single county in the state both times.

Governor Justice flipped to the Republican Party back in 2017 and announced his intention to flip with then-President Donald Trump on the stage. “Today, I will tell you, with lots of prayers and lots of thinking, I can’t help you anymore being a Democrat governor…[s]o tomorrow, I will be changing my registration to Republican” declared the governor of the Mountain State.

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One Democratic friend of Governor Justice said about the man’s decision at the time, “I have not discussed this situation with him to know what moved him to switch parties, but suffice it to say that much of West Virginia’s been voting this way. But most of the state is registered Democrats, so I’m sure he read the political winds.” Those winds blow Republican red.

Jim Justice is also an aspirant for a federal office. He is running in the Republican primary for Senator to the United States Congress.



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