W.Va. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much
Associated PressCHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some Republican officeholders in West Virginia are already revving up campaigns for governor in 2024. “It doesn’t matter what Republican is going to be in the field, they’re all going to say that 2020 was fake,” said Trevor Southerly, a 20-year-old community college student from Moorefield. “It’s a political move, and they have to make the move or they’re going to lose.” Southerly said what draws him to Morrisey is his support for school choice programs and expanding West Virginia’s energy production workforce. After West Virginia was the last in the nation to certify a presidential winner in 2020, Army veteran Warner said he supported the state’s involvement in the legal effort to challenge the results. Trump has characterized it as a “terrible” system that "’pumps the rolls’ for Democrats and does nothing to clean them up.” But Warner never said publicly before this week that he believes the election was stolen, saying that view has crystallized in his mind as new information has come out.
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