Huntington Mayor Steve Williams says he plans to run for West Virginia governor. That makes him the first — and so far only — Democratic candidate in the field eight months before the primary election.
Republican Gov. Jim Justice is prohibited by law from seeking a third consecutive term.
Ben Salango, a Democrat and Kanawha County commissioner who lost to Justice in the 2020 general election, recently announced that he won’t seek the governor’s office again. If no other candidates enter the race, it would mark the fewest Democrats running for governor in at least 75 years, although it’s not unprecedented for a gubernatorial candidate to run unopposed. Bill Cole was the lone candidate when he won the Republican primary in 2016 before losing in the general election to Democrat Jim Justice, who then switched to the GOP seven months after taking office.In 2018, he withdrew his candidacy from a U.S.
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