President Donald Trump was returning to West Virginia today, flying in Huntington to rally just ahead of Election Day.
Trump has been crisscrossing the country in support of local Republican candidates. The president has been to West Virginia for rallies three times in recent weeks.
Trump’s approval remains about 60 percent in West Virginia, highest of any state in the country.
In West Virginia, those receiving Trump’s support include Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is trying to unseat Republican Senator Joe Manchin.
Morrisey played up Trump’s visit repeatedly during a one-hour debate with Manchin on Thursday evening.
“We have work left to do to win on Tuesday,” Morrisey said during Friday’s rally.
A standing-room-only crowd gathered at a hangar at Huntington’s Tri-State Airport.
Introductory remarks came from Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican, as well as from Morrisey.
Carol Miller, a Republican state delegate running for Congress in southern West Virginia, also made introductory remarks to the crowd.
So did Gov. Jim Justice, who told those gathered that if Miller’s opponent, Democrat Richard Ojeda, is elected to Congress than Trump will “wipe me out.”
Morrisey and Miller each disembarked Air Force One as it landed at the airport in Huntington a little after 4 p.m. In the background played “Country Roads.”
