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Incumbent Capito, WVa Dem Swearengin vie for US Senate seat

by John Raby
| October 24, 2020 12:03 AM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Paula Jean Swearengin is using her stances on progressive issues, her popularity from a role in a Netflix movie and the hard realities of a life spent in the southern West Virginia coalfields to try to snap Republican U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito's two-decade streak in political office.

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