West Virginia Senate Race: Alex Mooney vs. ‘Big Jim’ Justice

Washington, D.C. — No amount of pleading from Republican forces in Washington will convince Representative Alex Mooney to bow out of West Virginia’s GOP Senate race ahead of the state’s May 14 primary.

“I have never said to anyone, ever, that I would even consider doing anything other than run for the U.S. Senate,” Mooney told National Review in a wide-ranging interview last month in a Washington townhome, a short walk away from the U.S. Capitol. “I think the voters deserve a conservative choice, and I’m the only one running.”

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Audrey Fahlberg

Audrey Fahlberg was a politics reporter for National Review.

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Washington, D.C. — No amount of pleading from Republican forces in Washington will convince Representative Alex Mooney to bow out of West Virginia’s GOP Senate race ahead of the state’s May 14 primary.

“I have never said to anyone, ever, that I would even consider doing anything other than run for the U.S. Senate,” Mooney told National Review in a wide-ranging interview last month in a Washington townhome, a short walk away from the U.S. Capitol. “I think the voters deserve a conservative choice, and I’m the only one running.”