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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2022
Between 1996 – the first year that Joe Manchin ran for statewide office in West Virginia – and 2020, West Virginia changed from a reliably “blue” state, with Democratic registrations outnumbering Republican by 2 to 1, to a state captured by the Republican nominee in every presidential election beginning in 2000, capped by Donald Trump’s 42- and 39-point margins in 2016 and 2020, respectively. As noted by Politico, “few spots in America have shifted politically faster and more decisively than this state, swinging from nearly entirely blue to almost totally red over the last 20 years.”1 In February 2021, party registrations in West Virginia actually edged in favor of Republicans for the first time.
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