Well, there was only one governor race in 2020 that I did a special post on that I haven’t done the results of just yet. I still plan to do a post on the elections for governor then in their entirety. I had talked about the West Virginia governor race back in 2020.
It was interesting since a former Democrat, Jim Justice, was now a Republican, making the switch early into his term. If elected as a Republican, he would make history by getting elected as a Republican governor of this state. Despite the fact that West Virginia is considered a red state, they normally don’t have Republican governors. People like me and various others would want to support the Democrat in the race, Ben Salango. Still, Jim handily won both the primary and the election.
While I didn’t want to admit it, part of the reason that I might target a lot of governors come 2022 would be over their handling of the coronavirus, and while a donation against them seem like a failing grade, the truth is, Jim has handled coronavirus quite while. Things have been much better in his state than a lot of others. Either he has done something right or he hasn’t horribly screwed things up there. Regardless of what happened, I just know that he did well there and actually did better than other Republican governors who also did win reelection in 2022.
It might not have been the election results that I would have wanted, but we seem to be fine for now with Jim still in charge of West Virginia. Perhaps he can be a voice of reason within his party that is sadly often absent from where it belongs.
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