WEST VIRGINIA (LOOTPRESS) – With the 2024 Election barely behind us, attention is already turning to the next one, the Midterm Elections in 2026.
Derrick Evans has officially announced that he is running for the United States Senate to unseat Shelley Moore Capito. Capito was first elected to the Senate in 2015. Just this year, Democrat turned-Independent Joe Manchin decided not to run again, and Republicans were able to flip that seat after Governor Jim Justice won overwhelmingly.
Evans also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on May 14, 2024.
Evans, a Republican, was a West Virginia House of Delegates member, representing District 19. He assumed office on December 1, 2020. He left office on January 9, 2021.
Evans also ran for the House of Delegates in 2016. After being defeated in the Democratic primary on May 10, 2016, Evans refiled as a Libertarian.
Evans pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstructing or impeding officers during a civil disorder and was sentenced to three months in prison in June 2022. Evans struck an apologetic tone after he admitted under oath in court that he had, in fact, knowingly committed a felony crime on Jan. 6, 2021, but he has since rebranded himself as a “political prisoner”.
