West Virginia’s Republican Candidate For Senator Jim Justice Barely Shows Up to Work: Report

Joshua Lott/The Washington Post

West Virginia candidate Jim Justice may almost certainly snag a seat in the U.S. Senate next year. But even the Republican governor's own colleagues say that his attendance at work is less of a guarantee.

Nearly a dozen people in West Virginia’s political scene told Politico that Justice is rarely seen at the state capitol building in Charleston, which houses the governor's office.

Justice, nicknamed “Big Jim,” is perhaps best known nationally as the guy who spoke to the Republican National Convention in July with his English bulldog, “Babydog,” sitting in a chair next to his podium.

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