Posted on 04/28/2022 8:47:43 AM PDT by cotton1706
en. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) that he would switch his party to Independent and caucus with the Republican Party if Thune were made the leader of the Senate GOP, according to reporting in a new book from a pair of New York Times reporters.
Early in 2021, shortly after the election of President Biden and after Democrats had taken control of the House and Senate, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Thune tried to convince Manchin to switch parties, according to reporting in the book by journalists Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
Manchin had reportedly grown frustrated by his own party at the time following an interview Vice President Harris gave to a TV station in his state and said the White House had not notified him she would be doing so beforehand. The two sides at the time had been working on the White House’s coronavirus relief proposal.
In their book “This Will Not Pass,” a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, Martin and Burns report Thune pitched Manchin on the idea of not formally joining the GOP, but instead becoming an Independent and caucusing with Republicans.
Manchin was not sold on the idea, according to the book, because he did not want to make Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) the Senate majority leader again.
If Thune were the GOP leader, Manchin reportedly told him, he would make the switch.
Manchin, a conservative Democrat from a state that overwhelming voted for former President Trump twice and has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1996, has repeatedly dismissed speculation that he has considered switching parties.
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Democrats and Assistant Democrats - bump for later...
Why not?
Aside from no politician is to be trusted. :)
How would he feel about switching if we kicked Mitch out of leadership?
This same book again?
Sounds like it is just a giant gossip column.
Evidence that Thune is an assistant Democrat.
That’s what the whole article is about...
"Meet the new boss..."
So you know it's a lie.
sounded like he specifically named Thune, not any replacement
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It’s all run by RINOs
And the Dems feast and plunder and there’s no opposition
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Thune is a RINO, at best.
So the RINOs would be in charge, no thank you.
Doesn't matter. If the GOP takes the Senate then McConnell will be the leader, not Thune.
Mitch would get even by retiring, letting the D Gov Beshear install a libdem, who would serve until after the Nov 2023 election.
Thune is a McConnell acolyte.
Rand Paul should be the new Majority Leader.
How do we replace Kevin as House leader?
Joe is unlikely to do this. He would lose all the leverage he has as a demonRAT.
One RINO subbing for another, big deal.
Senator John Kennedy for Senate GOP Leader and Senate Majority Leader.
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