Paula Jean Swearengin | |
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Born | Mullens, West Virginia, U.S. | June 13, 1974
Political party | Independent (2022–present) |
Other political affiliations | Democratic (before 2021) MPP (2021–2022) |
Children | 4 |
Paula Jean Swearengin (born June 13, 1974) is an American activist and politician who was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in West Virginia,[1] and a candidate in the Democratic primary for the state's other Senate seat in 2018.[2][3] Her 2018 campaign was one of four campaigns featured in the 2019 documentary Knock Down the House.[4]
Swearengin lost the 2020 election to Republican incumbent Shelley Moore Capito by more than 40 percentage points,[5] and the 2018 primary to incumbent Joe Manchin. She left the Democratic Party in 2021 and joined the Movement for a People's Party.[6] She left the organization in 2022.[7]
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