Sen. Manchin is staying in the US Senate, deciding against running for governor in West Virginia, spokesperson tells NBCNews.
Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, won't run for governor again next year, he announced Tuesday.
Manchin, who served as governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010, won re-election to the Senate last fall by more than 3 percentage points over state Attorney General Patrick Morrissey. Manchin was considering a challenge to Gov. Jim Justice, a first-term Republican closely aligned with President Donald Trump.
"I have always said that 'public service is not self-service,'" Manchin said in his Tuesday statement."So, when considering whether to run for Governor, I couldn’t focus just on which job I enjoyed the most, but on where I could be the most effective for the Mountain State."
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