West Virginia governor says he is joining Republican Party
As President Trump visited the increasingly conservative state Thursday, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced he’s switching parties to join Republicans.
Justice told about 9,000 Trump supporters at a rally in Huntington that he will change his registration Friday. He recently visited the White House twice with proposals on manufacturing and coal. Neither he nor Trump is a traditional politician, and they both ran to get something done, he said.
Trump said they spoke a few weeks ago about working together to open coal mines and create jobs in furniture manufacturing and other forms of manufacturing.