![]() ![]() West Virginia’s turn from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party didn’t happen overnight, Capito said. “West Virginia eventually demonstrated what Ronald Reagan said: we didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left us.” “For many, many decades, we were a deep blue state,” Capito said. Joe Manchin is the last elected Democrat representing West Virginia on Capitol Hill. Capito’s nephew, State Treasurer Riley Moore, defeated the last Democrat - John Perdue - on the Board of Public Works in 2020. ![]() Republicans took the majority of the West Virginia Legislature in 2015. Republicans became the majority voter registration in the state at the beginning of 2021 and have continued to grow since then. I hold that very same Senate seat that President Reagan encouraged my father to run for.”Ĭapito said West Virginia is at the core of the questions the Reagan Foundation seeks to answer in its speaker series. “He said he wanted my father to move back to Washington to renew the warm friendship they had when my dad worked with him on the campaign. “My father, Arch Moore, served as governor of West Virginia the same time as Ronald Reagan served as governor of California,” Capito said. ![]() Reagan later encouraged Moore, a former congressman, to run for U.S. Arch Moore, who served on Reagan’s presidential state campaign committee in 1979. ![]() She is the daughter of the late Republican Gov. She has served as a state lawmaker, a congresswoman representing the old 2nd Congressional District and was elected to the U.S. Senate in West Virginia history and the 45th woman elected to the U.S. We need to make the case for our policies and our ideas with facts and compassion, recognizing that just as our party is a big tent, our country is an even bigger tent and there’s so much more that unites us than divides us.”Ĭapito is the first woman elected to the U.S. “Indeed, the divergence of views is one of our strengths. “As President Reagan said in 1967, there is room in our tent for many views,” Capito said. Ron DeSantis, Capito said the Republican Party must come together over the things both coalitions can agree on in order to be more appealing to the country as a whole. With a Republican Party battling between the traditional limited government conservatism of Reagan and the nationalist conservative movement personified by former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Florida Gov. “These days, I know it’s rare to hear a U.S. “Before you ask, no, I am not running for president,” Capito said. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who just announced his Republican presidential campaign earlier Monday. Ambassador and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and Sen. Past speakers include Vice President Mike Pence, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Barry Goldwater, the Time for Choosing series invites speakers to discuss the future of the Republican Party, its successes and failures, and for what the party should be standing. Named for a speech the late President Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, gave in 1964 in support of the presidential campaign of Republican Arizona U.S. Capito, the vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, was invited to speak at the Reagan Foundation for its “Time for Choosing” speaker series. Capito, R-W.Va., gave a speech Monday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, Calif. ![]()
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