2024 West Virginia Senatorial race: debates and news coverage


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Abortion     Glenn Elliott: Restore the balanced framework that Roe v. Wade provided.     Glenn Elliott: Restore women's reproductive rights; codify Roe.     Alex Mooney: Promote culture of life from conception to natural death.

Budget & Economy     Glenn Elliott: Incentivize first-time homebuyers & rural infrastructure.

Civil Rights     Glenn Elliott: Supports city ordinance to protect LGBT community.

Corporations     Don Blankenship: Corporate media empires divide Americans with untruths.

Crime     Alex Mooney: Jan. 6 not a domestic terrorist attack, just a protest.     Glenn Elliott: We have a historically low crime rate for a city our size.

Drugs     Alex Mooney: Rated B by NORML on marijuana reform.     Jim Justice: Rated C- by NORML: 100% against recreational marijuana.     Glenn Elliott: Reschedule marijuana; doesn't make sense to criminalize it.

Education     Glenn Elliott: Build pathways that connect education to local careers.

Energy & Oil     Alex Mooney: Promises to be a strong advocate for the coal industry.     Don Blankenship: Climate change policy hits vital energy & steel industries.     Glenn Elliott: Advocated for green energy, silent on EPA coal rules.

Families & Children     Glenn Elliott: Support families with comprehensive child care solutions.     Glenn Elliott: Strengthen the middle class: invest in child care.

Foreign Policy     Jim Justice: Keep Chinese Communist Party from purchasing U.S. land.     Glenn Elliott: Support for Ukraine critical for our national security.     Jim Justice: Requested $5m from legislature to support Ukraine hospital.     Alex Mooney: Condemn China and Cuba for establishing a spy base.

Free Trade     Don Blankenship: Oppose extreme free trader government & economists.     Glenn Elliott: I will support fair trade that benefits our workers.

Government Reform     Don Blankenship: Return to a nation of laws, not illogical judges.

Gun Control     Alex Mooney: A+ Rating from the National Rifle Association.

Health Care     Don Blankenship: COVID pandemic: government-created crisis from China Virus.     Glenn Elliott: Expand Medicaid; bring down prescription drug costs.     Glenn Elliott: Why do we make severely ill use Go Fund Me?

Homeland Security     Alex Mooney: Prioritize the well-being of our service members & veterans.     Glenn Elliott: Beyond healthcare, our veterans deserve robust support.

Immigration     Glenn Elliott: Path to citizenship means more paying into Social Security.

Jobs     Glenn Elliott: Strengthen organized labor's power of collective bargaining.

Principles & Values     Glenn Elliott: Seventh Generation West Virginian and Mayor of Wheeling.     Alex Mooney: Work with religious organizations to service those in need.

Social Security     Alex Mooney: Reform Social Security to prevent insolvency & tax increases.     Glenn Elliott: Oppose any attempts to undermine these critical programs.

Tax Reform     Glenn Elliott: Close loopholes that let wealthy skirt tax obligations.

Technology     Don Blankenship: Equality/Ethics/Exactness: don't rely on media for truth.

War & Peace     Jim Justice: Weak foreign policy causes Mideast chaos and war.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Alex Mooney Republican Challenger West Virginia Don Blankenship Constitution Party candidate for President Glenn Elliott Democratic Challenger West Virginia Jim Justice West Virginia Democratic governor