{"id":79874,"date":"2017-08-04T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79874"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:19:15","slug":"governor-of-west-virginia-switches-to-republican-party-cant-help-as-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79874","title":{"rendered":"Governor of West Virginia Switches to Republican Party, &#8216;Can&#8217;t Help as a Democrat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>West Virginia Governor: I\u2019m Switching Parties Because \u2018I Can\u2019t Help You Anymore\u2019 as a Democrat<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"West Virginia Governor: I&#039;m Switching Parties Because &#039;I Can&#039;t Help You Anymore&#039; as a Democrat -\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDCKkTR5M04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>by IAN HANCHETT<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>During a speech at President Trump\u2019s rally in West Virginia on Thursday, the state\u2019s Governor, Jim Justice announced he is changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Justice said, \u201c[I]n the last session, I would tell you that there was some\u00a0greatness passed, with our roads and so on, but there was way too much pain. Now listen to me and listen really good, we hurt a lot of people. We hurt our vets and our teachers and our disabled and our weak and we walked away from the old. Now I can promise you just this, I\u00a0came to only get something done. Let me just say this to you as bluntly as I can say it, West Virginia, at the altar, when we had it done, like it or not like it, but the Democrats walked away from me. Now, today I will tell you, with lots of prayers and lots of thinking, today I\u2019ll tell you as West Virginians, I can\u2019t help you anymore being a Democrat governor. So tomorrow,\u00a0I will be changing my registration to Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cNow let me go one step further and say just this, what in the world is wrong us as peoples? Have we not heard enough about the Russians? I mean, to our God in heaven above think about it, the stock market\u2019s at 22,000. And this country has hope. And we\u2019re on our way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice also stated, \u201c[H]e [Trump] has made us, as common, everyday Americans, feel good and be proud of who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/08\/03\/west-virginia-governor-im-switching-parties-because-i-cant-help-you-anymore-as-a-democrat\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/08\/03\/west-virginia-governor-im-switching-parties-because-i-cant-help-you-anymore-as-a-democrat\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Governor: I\u2019m Switching Parties Because \u2018I Can\u2019t Help You Anymore\u2019 as a Democrat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}