CHARLESTON — Alex Mooney is going back to Congress.
MetroNews called the race for incumbent Mooney.
In the race were Mooney (R-W.Va.), Danny Lutz, Jr. with the Mountain Party and Talley Sergent, a Democrat who made a habit during the campaign of calling Mooney daily with debate requests. Mooney did not answer those calls.
“She’s a liberal Democrat who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager. I’m a conservative Republican who supports Donald Trump. I think voters know the difference,” Mooney previously told MetroNews.
Mooney was seeking a 3rd term in the U.S. House.
Now a resident of Jefferson County, Mooney served in the Maryland Senate between Dec. 1999 and Jan. 2011. He was chair of the Maryland Republican Party from Dec. 2010 to March 2013.
Sergent, a West Virginia native, made an issue of Mooney’s state loyalty in the campaign.
“Being a Democrat means taking those core West Virginia values that my grandparents instilled in me — they were part of the greatest generation after World War II — humility, honesty and hard work. And also service to others,” she has said.
Mooney called himself a West Virginian “by choice,” adding he’s proud to have moved to the Mountain State with his family.
Before her U.S. House run, Sergent’s resume included work for former U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), as state director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and time with the U.S. Department of State and Coca-Cola.
She was nominated in the May Democratic primary election with more than 62 percent of the vote over Aaron Scheinberg.
Last week, Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), a grandson of former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, campaigned with Sergent in Charleston.
Mooney did not face a primary challenger.
In 2016, Mooney was re-elected with 58 percent of the vote. In 2014, his first U.S. House run in West Virginia, he won with 47 percent of the vote against three other candidates that included Nick Casey, a former state Democratic Party chair.
In this race, Mooney has continued to link himself to President Donald Trump.
The 2nd Congressional District runs through the center of West Virginia.
It stretches from the Ohio River in the west to the Potomac River in the east through the following counties: Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Hampshire, Hardy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Morgan, Pendleton, Putnam, Randolph, Roane, Upshur and Wirt.
By Shauna Johnson
