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Voters are headed to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia. At the forefront are Senate primaries in Maryland and West Virginia, as the general election in November could upset the balance of power in the upper chamber of Congress. CBS News Baltimore re...
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has won the state’s Senate race, according to The Associated Press, marking a critical, albeit expected, pickup for Republicans this cycle. The current governor will replace outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), who caucu...
were never actually elected by public ballot to act on behalf of western Virginia. Of its 103 members, 33 had been elected to the Virginia General Assembly on May 23. This included some hold-over state senators whose four-year terms had begun in 1859, and some who vacated their offices to...
He had already announced in November that he wouldn’t seek re-election to the Senate, giving Republicans a clear path to picking up his West Virginia seat in their bid to retake the majority next year. Manchin has served in the Senate since 2010 and is ...
The West Virginia secretary of state is blocking ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship’s efforts to appear on the ballot in November as a third-party candidate, setting up a high-stakes legal fight. Secretary of State Mac Warner (R) said on Thursday that Blankens
Gov. Jim Justice has made his English bulldog, Babydog, a minor celebrity in West Virginia where she often joins him on gubernatorial trips. Now she’s enshrined in a new mural under the golden dome of the state Capitol. 2 of 5 | This photo provided by the West Virginia Le...
Walker has a clear understanding of the private, non-profit, andpublic sectors, having spent time in each. The son of a West Virginiafamily physician, Walker is dedicated to improving access and carequality for rural, underserved patients and communities. Walkercurrently resides in Ona, WV with...
This rash of violence came to a head at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, where far right demonstrators clashed with counter-protesters over two days, and a parade of young men marched at night with burning torches chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” When...