GOP Rep. Alex Mooney has defeated fellow Republican Rep. David McKinley in a West Virginia primary, prevailing with Trump’s support in a rare race featuring two incumbents.
in a West Virginia primary Tuesday night, demonstrating former President Donald Trump’s kingmaking power in a rare race featuring two incumbents.
Mooney and McKinley were thrown into the same district in 2022 after West Virginia lost a congressional seat following the 2020 Census. McKinley tagged Mooney, a former Maryland state senator and party chair there, as a carpetbagger and attacked him over an ethics investigation, while Mooney highlighted his Trump endorsement and cast McKinley as insufficiently conservative, including for supporting the 2021McKinley is the first member of Congress to lose reelection this year.
Trump’s clout, the political merits of infrastructure investment and the resuscitation of eight-year-old carpetbagging claims dominated the race. McKinley believed there would still be a political reward for bringing back federal funds for roads and bridges — despite Trump’s opposition to the package. His support for it earned him backing from Gov. Jim Justice and Democratic Sen.But Mooney bet that Trump’s backing — and a harder line on partisan politics — could propel him to victory.
For McKinley, a civil engineer who carries around an American Society of Civil Engineers report grading West Virginia’s infrastructure as a “D,” his yes vote on the infrastructure bill was easy. To Mooney, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, the bill’s price tag was too exorbitant and filled with too many poison pills.
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