West Virginia News
Mar 8, 2021
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, reporters question Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as he arrives for votes on President Joe Biden s cabinet nominees, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
By CUNEYT DIL Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) West Virginia has long proclaimed itself “Almost Heaven,” a nod to a song and soaring mountaintop vistas. Now some joke the state name-checked in “Take Me Home, Country Roads” could take things up a notch as Democratic U.S. Sen Joe Manchin bargains his way through Congress.
“Maybe we’ll get to heaven status,” said longtime Democratic Party official Nick Casey.
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