Headline Roundup • August 8th, 2017
Democratic WV Governor Goes Republican
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Forbes
“Today I will tell you with lots of prayers and lots of thinking,” Justice said to an enthusiastic crowd of Trump supporters. ”I can’t help you anymore being a Democrat governor. So tomorrow I will be changing my registration to Republican.”
The moment was filled with political pomp and pageantry: Thousands of cheering supporters packed into an arena, a sea of poster-board signs and a big announcement.
If the Democrats and Republicans were engaged in a real war – what they're all doing now is just political combat of the messiest kind – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's defection to the GOP after just a few months in office might be a signal it's time to sue for peace.
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