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GOP mega donor has picked his candidate for governor of West Virginia, but will he actually run? [1]

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Date: 2023-03-16  

Uihlein is also the top funder for the Club for Growth, which also likely wants Morrisey to do something other than run for the Senate. Justice, who is termed-out of his current post, is looking at a bid against Manchin, but Club head David McIntosh in January dismissed the governor as “more moderate” than it likes. The Club, by contrast, is close to Rep. Alex Mooney, who announced a bid for the upper chamber in November. While McIntosh said this year that his group was interested in both Mooney and Morrisey for Senate, the two Justice alternatives could be chasing after the same group of supporters if they both competed in the same primary.

The governor’s race, by contrast, has no obvious frontrunner. The GOP primary currently features two members of prominent Mountain State political families: Capito, who is the son and namesake of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, and auto dealer Chris Miller, whose mother is Rep. Carol Miller. The other notable candidates are state Auditor JB McCuskey and Secretary of State Mac Warner, who also have relatives in state politics. The same cannot be said for the New Jersey-reared Morrisey, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in the Garden State in 2000.

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