Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said that he won’t run for West Virginia governor in 2020, and will opt instead to stay in the Senate.
People have been speculating for months that Manchin, who was the state’s governor from 2005 to 2010, would join the race for the state’s highest office. Manchin, who won the U.S. Senate seat in a special election following the death of Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd in 2010, was reelected to a six-year term in 2018.
