By all indications, Shrewsbury, a 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran and community organizer, faces a difficult, if not impossible, road to victory. West Virginia gave Donald Trump his second-biggest margin of support of any state in the nation three years ago, and Manchin is the last Democrat holding a statewide office. Political analysts do not expect voters to elect the Democratic candidate – whoever that turns out to be – and predict Manchin will be replaced by either Governor Jim Justice or Congressman Alex Mooney, the two leading Republicans in the Senate race.
Shrewsbury’s message to them is: not so fast.
“People were really sold on the fact that Joe Manchin could be the only Democrat that could win in West Virginia, and I very much disagree,” Shrewsbury told the Guardian a week after the senator made his announcement.
I’m glad the first comment I saw here was thinking the exact thing I was.
If I could get some sort of filter for Lemmy that blocked all news headlines that contained question marks, I’d be a happier fella.
Bonus points if it could also filter any headline that contains the following words/phrases: “slams”, “blasts”, “may”, “might”, “could”, “possibly”, “probably”, “should”, “must”, “need to”, “\ says”.