Posted on 05/14/2024 5:12:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
With incumbent Gov. Jim Justice reaching his term limit and running for the U.S. Senate, a field of Republicans is competing to replace him in a primary Tuesday. While they address issues specific to the mountain state, like the future of coal productionand low school scores, the national debate over transgender rights is filling many of their campaign ads.
"Fairy tales aren't facts, a boy is not a girl," says an ad for candidate Chris Miller. "I'm fighting to make sure that girls are never forced to play sports with guys," says one from candidate and current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.
A political action committee ran one ad that referred to transgender children as "monsters." The rhetoric worries some West Virginians, like Billy Wolfe with the West Virginia ACLU.
"Their campaigns are built on demonizing people, and villainizing people to score cheap political points," Wolfe said. "We know that this kind of rhetoric not only affects young people, it also leads to legislation that causes real harm."
West Virginia went for former President Donald Trump in the last two elections and leans heavily Republican. So the winner of the GOP primary will probably be a frontrunner in November as he takes on the lone Democrat, three-term Huntington Mayor Steve Williams. The Republicans are pitching voters with appeals based on their pro-Trump, anti-Biden credentials and pledges to fight transgender rights.
The four main contenders are firmly in the state's GOP establishment. There's three-term Attorney General Morrisey, known for mounting legal challenges against the Obama and Biden administration on things like environmental regulation.
He faces opposition from former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Moore Capito. Capito (pronounced CAP-ee-toh) is the son of West Virginia U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and grandson of the late Gov. Arch Moore.
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Although I live in deep southern Ohio I receive most of my TV stations from West Virginia, so I get to see all the political ads.
The ads that are promoting candidates are all trying to say they are more ‘Trump’ than the others.
There are a lot of attack ads, mostly without any merit.
I am convinced that Big Jim will be the senator. The governor race is the biggest in my opinion. Big Jim is out because of term limits. Chris Miller is the son of the current US Rep but in his defense he is a very successful business man, he owns a lot of car dealerships and everyone knows him because of his successful infomercials that are very entertaining. One of his campaign promises is term limits but his mother has been the US Rep for 3 terms now.
Patrick Morrisey is also running for governor. He was the Attorney General and did a good job. The attack ads on him are about his past when he was a lobbiest for a pharmaceutical company (something like that). So we have a good businessman vs an attorney that did a lot preventing wokeness in WV.
Lots of big WV family names are in the overall ballot
I’m here in the tri-state area (Ashland KY). Glad to see WV turning MORE red.
“A political action committee ran one ad that referred to transgender children as “monsters.””
That is such a lie. Remember if it comes from NPR, it is a lie.
The ad is refering to the doctors who mutilate the confused children.
Lies, lies, and lies.
National Propaganda Regurgitator failed to note that those legal challenges have been SUCCESSFUL.
Oh, yeah. Morrissey for Gov. Alex Mooney for Senate. Chris Walker for Congress.
As soon as Hillary screamed “We’re going to shut down the coal mines!!” West Virginia became solid Republican.
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