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{"id":27352,"date":"2026-09-30T20:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-justice-says-he-has-a-short-timeline-for-deciding-on-governor-run\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:04:41","slug":"jim-justice-says-he-has-a-short-timeline-for-deciding-on-governor-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-justice-says-he-has-a-short-timeline-for-deciding-on-governor-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Justice says he has a \u2018short\u2019 timeline for deciding on governor run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GOP Sen. Jim Justice said Wednesday that he\u2019ll decide whether to run for West Virginia governor before the end of the year but likely not until after the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timeline is short, because I don\u2019t want to jerk you around,\u201d Justice said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to jerk people around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice said he initially wanted to make a decision before the Nov. 3 elections, \u201cbut, you know, what\u2019s happened is, we\u2019ve been so busy, time just gets away, and now, you know. it may very well be best to wait and go after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue Light News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/sen-jim-justice-is-exploring-another-run-for-governor-01063370\" target=\"_blank\"><u>first reported earlier this month<\/u><\/a> that Justice was considering another governor bid and was viewed as likely to run.<\/p>\n<p>Justice added he was hearing from Republican Party leaders in the state \u201cin only one way, and that\u2019s, please run for governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice said he hasn\u2019t spoken to President Donald Trump about whether or not he should run or stay in the Senate. He said he also hasn\u2019t spoken to the sitting Republican governor, Patrick Morrisey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Jim Justice said Wednesday that he\u2019ll decide whether to run for West Virginia governor before the end of the year but likely not until after the midterms. \u201cThe timeline is short, because I don\u2019t want to jerk you around,\u201d Justice said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to jerk people around.\u201d Justice said he initially wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}