(THE HILL) West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who was elected last year as a Democrat, announced Thursday that he will change political parties and become a Republican.

“Let me just say this to you as bluntly as I can say it, West Virginia. At the altar when we had it done, like it or not like it, but the Democrats walked away from me,” Justice said during a rally with President Trump in Huntington, W.Va.

“Now today I would tell you with lots of prayers and lots of thinking, today I tell you as West Virginians, I can’t help you any more being a Democrat governor,” he continued. “So tomorrow I will be changing my registration to Republican.”

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