“I want goodness for this country”: Gov. Justice speaks on Senate run with 7News

WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — “We’re on the road to losing America.”

That’s what West Virginia Governor Jim Justice told a group of coal workers in Wheeling this week regarding the Biden Administration.

In a sitdown with 7News, he elaborated that he sees its policies as quote “haywire,” and that’s why he’s running for U.S. Senate.

The two-term leader of the state says he doesn’t agree with current policy on the economy, crime, the southern border or foreign affairs.

Justice says going to D.C. was never a goal for him, but he feels as though his number has been called.

“I’ve never taken one thing for me as your governor, and I don’t want anything. What I want is goodness for Toby and Edith out there. I want goodness for this country because I really believe in this country. And I think it’s a crying pitiful shame where we are.”

Gov. Jim Justice, (R) Candidate for U.S. Senate

He will compete for current Senator Joe Manchin’s seat along with Republican Congressman Alex Mooney, who criticizes Justice as a fiscal liberal.

Justice’s run has received the endorsement of former President Trump.

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