Jim Justice’s life feels like an American folktale.

Standing at 6’7”, the Republican senator from West Virginia is built like Paul Bunyan. He, like Bunyan, has an animal sidekick in Babydog, his English bulldog. He sounds like a character written by Mark Twain.

Justice was born and raised in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where he’d ride his bike to school, play Little League baseball, and romp through the woods. He went to college on an athletic scholarship and became captain of the Marshall University golf team.

He then joined the family agriculture business, and became an eight-time national corn-growing champion. He’s headed too many businesses to count, but decided to run for public office. He served two terms as governor of West Virginia and is now the junior senator from West Virginia.

Justice and Babydog joined me this week on “The Signal Sitdown” to talk about his journey from West Virginia to Washington, D.C.

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