Ok I did get a chance to mess around with this and YES thank you, it was the choke. For anyone else having trouble and is zero familiar with how these chokes work I will call out my issues, all user error.

The choke button didn’t seem to do much when I pushed it so I used the manual choke. However there are two points where the choke lever stops. I didn’t pull hard enough to get to the second point. For the electric choke I had to manually work it a few times to break it lose and spray it down.

I really appreciate the help, my son and I are working on a early 60’s Mirrocraft runabout that we are really excited to work on.