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1 posted on 10/25/2021 9:06:41 AM PDT by jarheadtom
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So, if Manchin switches to Independent but would still caucus with the DEMs, how does that change anything?


2 posted on 10/25/2021 9:08:56 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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Republican Sen. Mike Lee said he ‘absolutely’ thinks Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin should switch parties on ‘Sunday Night in America’

Manchin isn't an idiot. He knows that if he switches to the Republicans he gets primaried out in 2024. If he stays with the Democrats he has a chance of reelection. A dwindling chance but still a chance.

3 posted on 10/25/2021 9:10:19 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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DOPE! He’s a DEMOCRAT THRU AND THRU!


4 posted on 10/25/2021 9:14:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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I don’t see how any self-respecting human being could be a Democrat


5 posted on 10/25/2021 9:14:42 AM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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Why leave a party where you control the agenda with your vote to become just one of 5-6 other squish “moderates”?


6 posted on 10/25/2021 9:15:01 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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Manchin was huddling with Biden & Schumer over the weekend. They were probably threshing out a deal while Biden alternated between nappy-time and ice cream snacks.

My gut tells me that Manchin is about to flip.


7 posted on 10/25/2021 9:20:46 AM PDT by Tallguy
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the GOP doesnt want him either


10 posted on 10/25/2021 9:26:20 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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Republican Sen. Mike Lee said he ‘absolutely’ thinks Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin should switch parties on ‘Sunday Night in America’

Right now Manchin is the most powerful man in the Senate, in Congress and in Washington. No part of the president's agenda will be accomplished without his say-so, and he can extract enormous concessions from the Democrats this way. If he switches to the GOP, he just becomes another never-Trumper liberal Republican in a crowd of them. He'd have to be an idiot to switch.
14 posted on 10/25/2021 9:30:00 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Munchkin says he is a moderate. He is no such thing.


20 posted on 10/25/2021 9:34:30 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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Manchin is holding out for more goodies, that’s all.


38 posted on 10/25/2021 9:50:52 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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Right now, if Manchin continues to throw monkey wrenches in Biden’s agenda, then the Republicans have him right where they want him.

The country is in a terrible mess and the Democrats are in nominal control of Congress as well as the White House. If Manchin switches to Republican, giving Republicans a majority in the Senate, the Democrats have even more ammunition than now to say, “You see? We’re trying to do something to help but the Republicans won’t let us.”

So if McConnell can outbribe Schumer in getting Manchin to be a trouble-maker in return for some future promises, it’s better for Manchin to stay where he is, for now.


43 posted on 10/25/2021 9:57:50 AM PDT by RAldrich
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why?

we don’t need another liberal social republican senator

i mean we just planted one pos in tge ground not too long ago

can’t damn get rid of the current ones we have


57 posted on 10/25/2021 11:44:15 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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