Posted on 09/15/2025 5:35:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., wanted Republicans to win the Senate last year in order to prevent Democrats’ pursuit of "raw political power."
In his new book, "Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense," set to be released on Tuesday and obtained by Fox News Digital, the former West Virginia Democrat-turned-Independent ripped into his ex-political party, tore into former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden and blasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., while lauding the relationship that he had with President Donald Trump.
Manchin made waves when he and former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who also left the Democratic Party to become an Independent, bucked Schumer and voted against the move to nuke the Senate filibuster in 2022.
He recalled that vote in his book and the pressure he felt from Schumer and Senate Democrats to fall in line on that and other key votes during Biden’s presidency.
Manchin accused Schumer of wanting a vote he "could broadcast to the radical left to prove his loyalty" and said the then-Senate majority leader didn’t actually believe that getting rid of the filibuster was the right thing to do, but rather to fulfill his "only priority" of maintaining control of the Senate.
"Because of what I knew — and what I had seen firsthand — I wanted Republicans to win the Senate majority in 2024," Manchin wrote. "I believed it was the only hope for preserving the Senate as an institution. I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule."
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Then he should have caucused with the republicans when he left the democrat party.
Like Fetterman, he was afraid.
His testing of waters is starting....
Yup—another politician who should have titled their memoirs...
“Profiles In Cowardice”.
The next Senator from West Virginia was going to be a Republican regardless of anything that slimeball Manchin was going to do. He had worn out his welcome, and the 'Rats have no bench here.
Oh please. Joe had AMPLE OPPORTUNITY to join the GOP—even the weak GOP “led” by the establishment. But he chose the road of the Demon Rats. He even bashed Trump.
Screw him.
“” He even bashed Trump.
Screw him.””””””
He voted to impeach Trump to show how he wanted bipartisanship and wanted the Republicans to win the Senate.
Yeah, sure.
They’ve got it. It’s called Dipsh** Court skanks who make their own laws since becoming weaponized against the American voters. Scabs and skanks.
Meanwhile he voted for all their crap
If that was so important, why did you vote with those same RATS whose quest was “raw political power”?
Manchin is a snake
Give him and Sienma ambassadorships to our 2 friendliest allies.
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