Romney Stumps for WV GOP Candidates Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will campaign for West Virginias U.S. Senate and House hopefuls Aug. 19. The former Massachusetts governor will attend a Charleston fundraiser and Beckley rally for Shelley Moore Capito, Alex Mooney and Evan Jenkins. The three races are key as Republicans look to tip traditionally Democratic West Virginia further right. Capitos campaign announced the events Monday in a news release. Capito, a seventh-term congresswoman, faces Democratic West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant in a high-profile Senate race. Capito is favored as Republicans try to overturn a thin Democratic Senate majority. Jenkins is challenging 19-term Democratic Congressman Nick Rahall in the 3rd Congressional District. Mooney and Democrat Nick Casey are seeking the 2nd Congressional District seat Capito will vacate. In the Capito news release, Romney called the three Republicans pro-coal advocates who oppose President Barack Obama. In 2012, Romney beat Obama in all of West Virginias 55 counties. The pro coal statements goes against what Romney pushed while governor of Massachusetts. I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant -- that plant kills people, Romney said while governor.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:37:16 +0000
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