If Manchin did switch to republican (hypothetically), would he win the WV Republican primary?

[mtvoter]

I actually think he might.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Not unless he starts praising trump like Jim Justice did.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

No. He voted to impeach Trump twice and Trump won't forgive him. He will lose the primary by over 15 points to a Trump-backed challenger.
Let's not forget Manchin voted on the opposite side of Trump on every issue Trump cared about. He would be way more moderate than Murkowski, like an Olympia Snowe.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He's not switching parties D's have an excellent chance to net gain seats next November

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

No. Manchin is a Democrat and he would fit perfectly in with the party of 2004 or 2010. He has zero place in the Republican party and Democrats will realize too late how much they took him for granted when he's replaced with a hard-line Republican.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Lol no, he would lose by over 20 points too.

[THG]

A lot of Republicans genuinely like and respect Manchin, but I'm not sure if that translates to him defeating a credible candidate like Alex Mooney in a GOP primary.

[MATTROSE94]

No. He voted to impeach Trump twice and Trump won't forgive him. He will lose the primary by over 15 points to a Trump-backed challenger.
Let's not forget Manchin voted on the opposite side of Trump on every issue Trump cared about. He would be way more moderate than Murkowski, like an Olympia Snowe.

Joe Manchin I would say would be more of a John Barrasso type if he switched over to the Republican Party. He is to the right of Mitt Romney on many issues and is opposed to pretty much all of the Democratic agenda.

[Schiff for Senate]

A lot of Republicans genuinely like and respect Manchin, but I'm not sure if that translates to him defeating a credible candidate like Alex Mooney in a GOP primary.

Alex Mooney might be a candidate in 2024 since he's going down in 2022 because muh redistricting, but he's actually one of the weaker candidates who could hypothetically run - he lived in MD for a long time, even holding a seat in the State Senate and being chair of MDGOP (he's a carpetbagger who literally moved to WV right before, and just to, run from Congress there after a run for Congress in MD went down in flames). On the other hand WV obviously doesn't care (or at least, not what used to be WV-02, the seat that Monney represented/is representing) since they elected him to Congress anyway.

[NewYorkExpress]

That probably depends on which Republican challenges him in the primary.

I think he could beat Mooney (play up the carpetbagging angle) or Justice (Trump probably wouldn't endorse in a race between two former Democrats), but I don't think he'd beat McKinley, and he'd be a heavy underdog against any other Statewide officeholder in West Virginia, especially Patrick Morrisey, whom he almost lost to in 2018.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

No. He voted to impeach Trump twice and Trump won't forgive him. He will lose the primary by over 15 points to a Trump-backed challenger.
Let's not forget Manchin voted on the opposite side of Trump on every issue Trump cared about. He would be way more moderate than Murkowski, like an Olympia Snowe.

Joe Manchin I would say would be more of a John Barrasso type if he switched over to the Republican Party. He is to the right of Mitt Romney on many issues and is opposed to pretty much all of the Democratic agenda.

You can't be serious lmao

[Yoda]

No. He voted to impeach Trump twice and Trump won't forgive him.

Came here to say this. Anyone who thinks he can win an R primary after that is smoking crack.

[mtvoter]

That probably depends on which Republican challenges him in the primary.

Justice (Trump probably wouldn't endorse in a race between two former Democrats)

Jim Justice isn't a former democrat.

[DrScholl]

No. His record is far to liberal to win a Republican primary.

[Meatball Ron]

A lot of Republicans genuinely like and respect Manchin, but I'm not sure if that translates to him defeating a credible candidate like Alex Mooney in a GOP primary.

Lmao. Mooney is the ONE candidate he might actually have a prayer of beating in a GOP primary.

[NewYorkExpress]

That probably depends on which Republican challenges him in the primary.

Justice (Trump probably wouldn't endorse in a race between two former Democrats)

Jim Justice isn't a former democrat.

Justice is a Republican who ran as a Democrat to get elected Governor, then switched parties again. That makes him a former Democrat in my book.

[mtvoter]

That probably depends on which Republican challenges him in the primary.

Justice (Trump probably wouldn't endorse in a race between two former Democrats)

Jim Justice isn't a former democrat.

Justice is a Republican who ran as a Democrat to get elected Governor, then switched parties again. That makes him a former Democrat in my book.

Then you went on to say:

"(Trump probably wouldn't endorse in a race between two former Democrats)"

That is absolutely false.

Former democrat Donald Trump wouldn't care, he'd absolutely endorse one of them.
Hint: probably the one that didn't impeach him twice.

Also, former democrat Donald Trump endorsed his fellow former democrat over the 'real' Republicans in the 2020 WV GOV GOP primary.

https://www.thedaonline.com/news/state/trump-endorses-jim-justice-in-tweet-ahead-of-primary-election/article_bb1c6a32-a91e-11ea-9b3c-e79563d86515.html

[THG]

A lot of Republicans genuinely like and respect Manchin, but I'm not sure if that translates to him defeating a credible candidate like Alex Mooney in a GOP primary.

Lmao. Mooney is the ONE candidate he might actually have a prayer of beating in a GOP primary.

Mooney is a fairly strong candidate whom I believe is favored against McKinley. He's probably the odds-on favorite to be West Virginia's next Senator.