IMHO Justice will be the nominee and will get Trump’s endorsement
Do Daniel Horowitz and the little punk governor from Florida have a viable replacement for Justice?
If not..... Blah....blah....blah.
Horowitz didn’t do a very good job of research.
Justice was a Republican prior to running for governor back in 2015. He was GOP only switched to Rat to run for governor. See the newspaper article.
All in all, Justice hasn’t been a bad governor. I attribute 50% of his success to a Republican legislature that got more Republican every year. He switched back to GOP right after Trump won. He claims to be pals with Trump. Both are resort owners so maybe so. (Justice owns the Greenbriar.) I am convinced he was a COVID fascist because he has all the high comorbidity factors for having a serious case. If Trump was leveraged on COVID due to being a germophobe double so with Justice. My problem with Justice is the fact he was very unethical in his business practices. He would often stiff contractors and such for payment of services particularly if the payment was a balloon payment. His mines were routinely hit with fines which he would routinely fight in court rather than just pay. When the mine is the only major employer in the town or county in WV & Kentucky, state governments were reluctant to shut it down.
Because of all of that I was shocked he actually won back in 2015. Because of his past health issues a lot of people are surprised he’s running for the Senate.
I’ll be voting for Mooney, but I am annoyed that I will be voting for a professional politician, which Mooney obviously is. Came here because he couldn’t have much of a political career in Maryland. Yes, he’s a carpetbagger! I voted for him over McKinley because McKinley went ‘native’ in DC. Forgot who his constituents were, he thought it was the Beltway! I think Justice will win, so I’ll be voting for him over Manchin if Manchin indeed runs.
I do agree with Horowitz on this being another example where Trump backs a ‘pal’ over a conservative.
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
He’s the governor of the state. Needless to say, he’s got the inside track at the nomination no matter what the establishment or Trump might want.
That doesn't appear to be accurate...at all.
That obviously doesn't make him a conservative but it is good to get basic facts straight.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404337-is-it-time-to-repeal-the-17th-amendment/
The 17th Amendment to our constitution changed the way Senators are chosen to serve in the Congress. As ratified in the original constitution, Senators were chosen by state legislatures to serve for a term of six years, while Representatives in the House were to be chosen by direct vote of the people. This is the principle behind “Bicameralism” – two branches of the legislative body answering to two separate constituencies, the Senate to the elected state governments and the House directly to the people. The 17th Amendment changed this to provide for Senators being elected by the popular vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures#External_links
State legislature control by party:
Republican: 28
Democrat: 19
Split: 3