Posted on 02/07/2023 11:13:41 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) kept speculation alive about him running for president in 2024 as a third-party candidate, telling reporters Tuesday “I don’t like the direction we’re going” and declining to rule out a bid for higher office.
Manchin has criticized Democratic leaders for refusing to negotiate with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over a package of fiscal reforms to attach to legislation raising the debt limit and has repeatedly voiced frustration over the lack of progress in Washington on energy permitting reform and addressing the nation’s $31 trillion debt.
“I don’t know what the next chapter will be, I don’t know [where] the future lies, I really don’t,” Manchin said when asked if he would run for president next year during a question-and-answer session hosted by Semafor’s Steve Clemons.
“I can tell you one thing: I feel, like most Americans, we’ve got to come together. Americans want to be united, they want to be together and right now we’re going further apart,” he said.
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Joe’s a weather vane.
“I don’t like the direction we’re going”
said the man that voted for all that got us here....
Let me be the first to say
Hillary 2024
just another negative thread by 27...
Plan is to try and split the vote again.
Manchin/Gabbard ?
Manchin? President? He is so gullible he gets rolled by his own party over and over. Ne’s not that smart. He can’t decide his way out of a paper bag. His feet are always in shifting sands. NOPE!
Maybe he can get Chris Sununu, Tim Scott, or Nikki Haley as his running mate.
Won’t work. No true conservative is going to support Manchin.
Joe is also a bore.
Manchin-Pence 24!
Ping.
That’s one way to get him to quit the senate.
Why not? You voted for it Joe.
It all depends on which direction pays him the most.
Marko
You don’t like the direction but you voted for it.
He wants to run as a Rat, because that’s what he is everything else is posturing.
If Biden & Kamaltoe bow out. In Manchin’s mind there will be an opening for him. He sees himself as a “Dark Horse” compromise candidate, splits the difference between the extremes.
Joe folks of W V are wise to be you ya turd
Joe Manchin, meet John Anderson.
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