After a campaign focused on national culture war issues, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey won the state's Republican nomination for governor, according to a race call by The Associated Press.
In a state that voted heavily for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, Morrisey will start as the frontrunner for the November election. He'll face the one contender in the Democratic primary, Steve Williams, who's in his third term as the mayor of Huntington. Unopposed in the Democratic primary, Williams has been able to wait and focus his efforts on the upcoming general election.
