Zach Shrewsbury faces an improbable task to replace the conservative Democrat in the face of a Republican onslaught – but he won’t be put off

By all indications, Shrewsbury, a 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran and community organizer, faces a difficult, if not impossible, road to victory. West Virginia gave Donald Trump his second-biggest margin of support of any state in the nation three years ago, and Manchin is the last Democrat holding a statewide office. Political analysts do not expect voters to elect the Democratic candidate – whoever that turns out to be – and predict Manchin will be replaced by either Governor Jim Justice or Congressman Alex Mooney, the two leading Republicans in the Senate race.

Shrewsbury’s message to them is: not so fast.

“People were really sold on the fact that Joe Manchin could be the only Democrat that could win in West Virginia, and I very much disagree,” Shrewsbury told the Guardian a week after the senator made his announcement.

  • HowMany@lemmy.ml
    01·
    1 year ago

    Any person with the American citizen’s best interests at heart would be better than this self serving cretin. How do we transition from fossil fuels to green energy while coal, oil and gas are running the show?

    We don’t.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
    06·
    1 year ago

    The Democratic party of West Virginia a will do anything they can to make sure this guy can’t win. The DCCC/DNC will not give this guy a single dollar. Not because they don’t think he can win, but because the only thing the Dems fear are people further to the left then the republican party. Because as soon as leftist candidate wins, the currently existing democratic party has no reason to exist.