Mac Warner says he’s going to fight the “wokeism” and “absolute silliness” of Washington, D.C., because “We don’t want their liberal agenda, we don’t want 87,000 new IRS agents, we don’t want child mutilation, and we want parents to have control in our children’s education!”
Which is why he’s running for … governor?
In a lengthy speech announcing his candidacy for the highest office in West Virginia, the current secretary of state dedicated one sentence to his plans for the Mountain State — a string of generic and insubstantial buzzwords that we all heard on repeat for the entirety of 2022. “I will fix infrastructure, boost education, build our economy, promote our energy and tackle the opioid crisis,” he said.
It sounds like Warner is more focused on what’s happening in the nation’s capital than he is with anything happening in his own backyard. Which isn’t exactly news, considering he’s spent the last couple years parroting Trump’s “Big Lie” — even going as far as brandishing a “STOP THE STEAL” sign at a December 2020 protest — and challenging other states’ elections.
If Warner is ready to leave the secretary of state office behind, all the better. But he seems to be running for the wrong office. Maybe he should try for Alex Mooney’s soon-to-be vacant U.S. House seat instead. After all, Warner obviously cares more about D.C. culture war politics than he does about fixing West Virginia’s actual problems.
