JUSTICE TO RUN FOR SENATE

West Virginia’s Governor is gearing up to challenge Senator Joe Manchin for his seat in 2024. Republican Jim Justice filed Thursday to run for U.S. Senate. Justice was a Democrat between 2015 and 2017, when he announced a party change at a rally joining then-President Trump. Democrat Manchin has not said yet whether he plans to run for re-election, but his seat is on relatively wobbly ground. The moderate has blocked some of Biden’s agenda in the Democratic-controlled Senate, such as the Build Back Better act, and has been against calls from his party to pass voting rights legislation and others.