He did this to run for Senate or Gov as Indy in WVa and split GOP vote and elect a Dem.
The WV polls showed him losing to Justice and barely beating the other GOP opponent - Mooney. The only splitting that will occur will be on the Rat side.
The thing I am surprised about is there has been no effort (yet!) to use the courts to take down Justice. Plenty of real pre-govenor “warts” there they could go after.