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Joe Manchin: Supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 'was a mistake politically'
Washington Examiner ^ | June 6, 2018 | by Naomi Lim

Posted on 06/06/2018 2:13:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday he regretted endorsing failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, adding he would be "open" to throwing his weight behind President Trump's 2020 re-election bid.

“I’m open to supporting the person who I think is best for my country and my state. If his policies are best, I’ll be right there,” Manchin told Politico Wednesday.

“I’m with him sometimes more than other Republican senators are with him,” he continued later in the interview. “A lot of the policies he’s done [have] been good for the state.”

Manchin recalled how Clinton asked him whether she could campaign in West Virginia in 2016 so she could explain her comments about wanting “to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

"I said, ‘That’s a bad idea, you shouldn’t come,’” Manchin remembered.

“It was a mistake. It was a mistake politically,” he said, referring to his support of Clinton.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: crooked; election2016; hillary
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To: Dilbert San Diego

He’ll lose.

Manchin is trying to play up his support of Trump but voters see right through it.

He wants to be re-elected and he’s desperate.

Part of Chuck-U’s problem is Red State Democrats have to defend their anti-Trump voting record.

Good luck with it.


41 posted on 06/06/2018 2:54:37 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Manchin is another goddamn sociopath megalomaniac, these guys prey on the stupid and have great success in getting re elected.

Frightening.


42 posted on 06/06/2018 2:56:01 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There he goes again. Joe is talkin conservative for the election. But if he gets back to Washington, he’ll support whatever or whoever the Dem Senate leaders tell him to support.


43 posted on 06/06/2018 2:59:32 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MplsSteve

Really, Joe, ya think?????


44 posted on 06/06/2018 3:00:49 PM PDT by MGunny
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To: Political Junkie Too

I sat with a large group of people from the WV Panhandle during Trump’s inauguration.They hated Manchin back then. He should have corrected sooner.


45 posted on 06/06/2018 3:05:08 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: FlingWingFlyer

true


46 posted on 06/06/2018 3:09:02 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Rome2000

Time for him to go and get him a huntin’ license, a la effin Kerry. Maybe a photo-op of him shootin’ a gun? Oh, he did that already, you say?


47 posted on 06/06/2018 3:22:51 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a liar. Just like McCain saying “build the dang wall.”


48 posted on 06/06/2018 3:29:21 PM PDT by montag813
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To: mewzilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdzMLk9wHQ


49 posted on 06/06/2018 3:31:12 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: Arm_Bears

Is Manchin the French term for whore? Politically speaking of course.


50 posted on 06/06/2018 3:34:51 PM PDT by Kudsman (I'm normnal.)
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To: Arm_Bears

I believe I read he is leading by 13 points to keep WV Democrat.


51 posted on 06/06/2018 3:56:59 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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https://patrickmorrisey.com/
52 posted on 06/06/2018 4:08:24 PM PDT by LeeClementineKenny (TRUMP 2020! - MAGA!!! - www.DonaldJTrump.com)
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To: NorthMountain

I think switching parties would be his best option. I don’t love the guy but his conservative credentials, phony as they are, are heads above Mitch McConnell’s.

After that statement, I wouldn’t be surprised if the DNC revoked his credentials.


53 posted on 06/06/2018 4:10:33 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: goldstategop

Before the Depression, it was solidly Republican (like Western PA was).


54 posted on 06/06/2018 4:12:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: NorthMountain

WV hasn’t voted Democrat for President since 1996.


55 posted on 06/06/2018 4:13:49 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

56 posted on 06/06/2018 4:14:30 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Theodore R.

That poll was a ludicrous outlier that didn’t pass the smell test. Over 50% of the likely voter electorate polled wants Manchin out.


57 posted on 06/06/2018 4:15:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Arm_Bears

Sounds afraid.


58 posted on 06/06/2018 4:29:00 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: goldstategop

Al Gore flipped Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia permanently. They saved us from Manbearpig.


59 posted on 06/06/2018 4:30:27 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: FlingWingFlyer

AZ district nonsense isn’t new. The AZGOP is traitorous. GOP legislatures have had Yuma with two military bases outvoted by Hispanic poverty districts on the other side of the state from Tucson for decades. Yuma has been represented in succession by radicals Mo Udall, Ed Pastor, and that nutball, Grijalva. It goes back to the Reagan years.

The GOP here doesn’t need the Democrats or Obama to slash their wrists. They do it willingly.


60 posted on 06/06/2018 4:36:02 PM PDT by Luke21
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