Posted on 11/17/2023 7:58:48 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Thursday on FNC’s “Special Report,” outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) addressed speculation he would seek the White House as a third-party candidate in 2024.
The West Virginia Democrat gave low marks to the two parties’ frontrunners, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
He told FNC host Bret Baier he had little confidence in either and warned of consequences if Trump were to win a second term.
“Well, first of all, we don’t know on Super Tuesday who the two candidates may be on the Democrat and Republican side,” Manchin said. “But right now, I guess all odds are they will be Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And I’m as honest as I can be with you, Bret. I believe that Donald Trump being elected again would destroy democracy as we know it. I — I’m concerned. I’m very scared because he’s already said what he would do. He’s going to use the power of the office for revenge. He’s going to basically — he doesn’t believe that — the only election — what he believes is, the only fair election is the one he won. And he doesn’t believe in the rule of law, to where the law only pertains to everybody but him.”
“It’s a horrible situation,” he continued. “And I just — I’m scared of that. That would destroy our country as I know it. And Joe Biden is not the person when he came there saying, I know how it works, I can bring the country together, I’m a centrist. Well, he’s pulled clear far to the left. So, let’s see what happens. Will anybody change? I don’t know. Will the rhetoric change? But if we don’t mobilize the moderate, sensible, what — we’re going to call them the radical middle, OK, the radical middle.
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precisely
Manchin is right!!!
If Trump gets elected, you might actually get people elected based on what the majority votes for, not what the uniparty decides.
Democracy as we know it today would end!
If Trump is elected there are a lot of people who need to move out of the US.
Please, please, please West Virginia.
Don’t be dumb like Pennsylvania voters!!!!!!!
I saw the interview........ Manchin is in fact on to something.
He’s going after the center. Trump is more center than Biden so Biden gets knocked off.
Meanwhile the money in West Virginia has killed Manchin off
Manchin.....number one political whore saying and doing anything questionable for look at me attention... go away boy.
This is nothing new for this asshat? He always plays the middle to make himself look important. He needs to go back to the mountains and do what he does best.....
All of these trump haters doing their best to defend democracy. Bwahahahaha
Destroying that type of "democracy" wouldn't be a bad thing.
If a politician spends enough time in Washington he/she starts to think he/she is God.
These liberals are completely obsessed with their new phrase, “our democracy”. For years “democracy” was an unknown word to democrats, in fact, they prefer socialism. But now, they are all in on “our democracy”. They disgust me with their hypocrisy.
Exactly. “As we know it” right now is approaching tyranny. That needs to be destroyed.
<>We are a constitutional representative republic.<>
You funny.
<>Well since we’re a Constitutional Republic . . .<>
You funny too.
They should take dictation.
Manchin, we are a FEDERAL REPUBLIC, not a democracy. Never been one...
From all I’ve heard, the people in WV love Trump. Especially the miners and blue collar workers.
Whoa! So, Manchin doesn’t want to run for president.
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