Posted on 10/22/2017 6:11:26 PM PDT by markomalley
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who is up for re-election in 2018, said it "wouldn't be wise" for Hillary Clinton to campaign for him in his home state of West Virginia.
He was asked during an interview that aired Sunday on MSNBC's "Kasie DC," if he was a "dead man walking" after President Trump won West Virginia by a wide margin in the 2016 presidential contest.
"I sure don't think so," he replied, listing off his prior political posts in the state and saying of himself, "I'm just West Virginia, period. It's not Democrat, Republican to me."
Asked if he'd like Clinton to campaign for him, Manchin immediately derided the notion.
"It wouldn't be wise for Hillary to come to West Virginia. It wouldn't be a good thing for her or for me," he replied.
Manchin maintained that he and the Clintons are friends, but seemed to indicate that comments Clinton made about coal country, in which West Virginia is the heart, during the 2016 campaign were irreconcilable with his political prospects in the state.
He said her comments were "very harmful and very hard to justify or say. She made a big mistake and it was wrong."
In March 2016, Clinton said, "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business" if she was elected president. Clinton, who pitched $30 billion program to revitalize the region that had been hemorrhaging thousands of mining jobs by helping it transition to renewable energy development, later said that comment was a "misstatement" after being confronted by a laid-off coal miner at a West Virginia campaign stop.
Manchin supported and campaigned for Clinton during her campaign, but said at the time that her remarks were "horrible."
Clinton is returning to the campaign trail Sunday in New Jersey, stumping for Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for governor, at an event closed to the press, with actress Whoopi Goldberg also expected to attend.
We need to get the Kenyanesian Usurper to West Virginia!
He is just another democrat voting against the Trump Agenda. He tries to play the nice middle of the road guy but Schumer has him by .....I was going to say what Schumer held but he doesn’t have any
“These are mountaineers using sign language to tell Hillary she’s number one. They were lined up on both sides of the street. She hasn’t been back to WV since”.
Me and about 30 others flipped Hillary the bird in Denver sometime in the 1990’s.
Until Joe actually changes parties and/or starts voting like a Conservative his seat should be just as contested as any RINO or Democrat.
Trump won the state by about 40 points and this guy hasn’t found anything he can work with Trump on? Who does he represent?!?
Who is running against Manchin?? I should donate to his campaign!
Patrick Morrisey and Evan Jenkins have announced.
No, that was the current Governor, Jim Justice, who switched to the GOP.
Morrisey is the one to support. Jenkins is more establishment.
Locusts showing up would be better than Hillary.
Obviously she can’t take a hint.
Your known by how your voting. Manchin voted against Obamacare repeal, voted no on budget, and has not helped Trump get anything done. Did he vote even for Gorsuch?
His voting record is almost as bad as RINO Collins.
We don’t need another Collins
Lol. She never will. She’ll be scheming up to the last minute before she dies.
ping
How the hell can the people of West Virginia vote for Joe Minchin!!!
Ridiculous question for the reporter to ask.
Manchin has a moonbat primary opponent Paula Jean Swearengin, a Berner who hates Hillary from the left. LOL, no luv for Shillery in WV.
A number of people who don’t understand WV politics have made the claim that Manchin is about to switch parties.
He’s denied it, repeatedly.
As for someone to support in the primary to run against him, look into supporting Patrick Morissey. He survived a serious hate-filled ad campaign against him to win a second term as WV Attorney General. Morissey’s also tight with Scott Pruitt at the EPA.
Let’s send him Sean Penn, Arec Bawrin and George Clooney to help
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