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Conservative Morrisey To Succeed Justice As WV Governor

Patrick Morrisey will be the next governor of West Virginia, after beating Democrat Steve Williams.

With no votes counted, The Associated Press called the race for Patrick Morrisey as soon as polls closed at 7:30 p.m.

Morrisey, a three-term Republican attorney general, ran a multi-million dollar campaign, following a brutally bitter six-way primary in the spring.

As attorney general, Morrisey made a name for himself by suing the Obama and Biden administrations over regulations and, in recent years, going after the companies that fueled the opioid epidemic.

The governor-elect has vowed to cut more taxes on the heels of the largest income tax cut in West Virginia history and to audit the state government to find more ways to squeeze it for all its worth.

“I believe in limited government, to make sure that when you have savings, you return as much of it to the people as possible,” Morrisey said during a debate last month in Fairmont.

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