He has the catbird seat and is going nowhere.
This is beyond the usual Manchin angling for the biggest payout. Manchin must want to keep his seat and realize the winds are not blowing in the Dems favor. The Dems have become so brazenly communist that they may have pushed Manchin’s chances beyond the margin of cheat.
I thought Manchin had called this claim “BULL...with a capital B!”
He has zero reason to switch. Once he switches to the GOP, all the attention would go to RINOs, like Mittens, on whether they would vote with the Dems.
Nah, he'll cave and be a hero.
Skipping the BS....if Manchin had half a brain that functioned correctly, he would realize he hails from WV which Adores Trump & Republicans. Manchin can assure holding his senate seat forever, if he become a Republican...period. WaKe up Joe Manchin, the Democrat Party is Dying each day in the hands of Biden, Harris & Pelosi!!! Manchin you will be a major hero in the USA history books, for saving the USA nation Republic, from your scum, vermin, Traitor Democrat Party, so called Buddies!!! Wise up Bro!!!
Bernie Sanders is an “Independent” Meaning, he’s a good little Marxist/Socialist/Communist.
Same as Manchin.
His comment from yesterday almost suggested the opposite. I paraphrase: "I am a hard-core West Virginia Democrat, although that may be different than a Washington Democrat." I almost wondered whether he was giving a small reminder that there is no national "Democratic Party." There are 50 state parties, a national convention, and two floor caucuses in Congress. And there is no reason he can't remain a member of the West Virginia Democratic Party (so no one can say he betrayed his constituents) but leave the Democratic caucus in the Senate.
That said, Manchin actually going to come off looking fairly good about 13 months from now when The Squat freaks out, and I mean weave-shredding shrieking freakout, after the House flips and they are denied any of the 3 Minority House leadership positions, when the Donkey moderates seize control with Nanzi/Hoyer/Clyburn's exit.
Why not simply become a RINO Republican as he’d be more conservative than most and that would flip the Senate to Republicans? Republicans should offer him committee chair or whatever it takes; he should say yes so long as Republican majority leader is no McConnell.
Likely Fake News.
Baffles me why any moderate democrat stays with that party but now that I think of it there aren’t any real moderate democrats. All of them ending up voting yay to the most insane crap
For a while West VA had started down the conservative road, I thought. But, now they elect another liberal commie dimocratic senator. I guess they are going back to the KKK Byrd days of liberals.
It’s just a rhetorical device — a response to how they’re likely blasting him for not being loyal to the party.
In Independent like communist Bernie Sanders? Wow how brave. Got news for you Joe, you and Synama will never win re-election as democraps!
Joe Manchin does what is best for Joe Manchin. He stands a better chance of being reelected in heavily Trumpian W Virginia as an indepedent than a Dem, but there is no doubt he is a Dem to his core and he will causus with the Dems.
You don’t ‘offer’ to leave the party. You storm out of the caucus and tell them to go to hell! with the POTUS they rode in on.
‘Bull..... With a B-U-L-L Capital B!’ Joe Manchin FUMES at Reporters Over Rumor He’s Considering Leaving Democratic Party
10/20/2021, 11:28:02 AM · by Conserv · 14 replies
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Jumpin’ Joe Manchin. No change at all. The Dems will still retain power.
why would one want to RECONCILE with evil??