W.Va. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), plan to skip the Democrat National Convention in Charlotte, NC, this summer.

The trio of West Virginia Democrats will not be part of the state delegation that will formally vote to re-nominate President Obama, according to a convention delegation list released Monday afternoon.

The decision to stay home comes amid pressure from state GOP leaders who have called on the Democrat incumbents to declare whether they support Obama. All three Democrats face re-election battles.

Manchin and Tomblin in particular have sought to distance themselves from the president, who is highly unpopular in West Virginia. In the state's May 8 Democrat presidential primary, federal inmate Keith Judd won more than 40 percent of the vote against Obama.

In recent weeks, Manchin and Tomblin have refused to say whether they would vote for Obama...

Tomblin, Manchin and Rahall said they would prefer to spend their time in West Virginia during the four-day convention in September...

On Monday, Tomblin's camp said the governor has "serious problems" with both President Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Tomblin opposes Obama's so-called "war on coal," and Romney's proposals to overhaul Social Security...

Rahall has said he would support President Obama's re-election, but the Democrat congressman also has criticized the president on some issues. Last week, Rahall said Obama was "as wrong as he can be" on a proposed immigration plan that would stop the deportation of children of illegal immigrants.

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