Posted on 12/20/2021 8:25:15 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) hit back at White House staff Monday and warned that Democrats had miscalculated by thinking that they could pressure him into backing President Biden's spending plan.
"They figured surely to God we can move one person. We surely can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough that they'll just say, 'OK I'll vote for anything,'" he said in a local radio interview.
"Well, guess what? I'm from West Virginia. I'm not from where they're from and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they'll be submissive, period," Manchin added.
Manchin's comments, made during a radio interview with West Virginia MetroNews's Hoppy Kercheval, come after he sent a jolt through Washington, D.C., on Sunday by announcing that he would not vote for the sweeping roughly $2 trillion climate and spending bill that was passed by the House earlier this year.
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Hoppy?
It amazes me the Left thinks they can pressure him when he is from a state in which EVERY SINGLE COUNTY voted against resident Biden. Seriously, what can they threaten him with? They gonna try to primary him? Go ahead. Bring out a candidate who would run to the Left of him.....in West Virginia.
The real scandal here is that red states have elected Democrats to the Senate. 2 from Arizona and Georgia, 1 from Ohio, 1 from Montana. None of those 6 has any business being in the Senate.
Yep, they gave his wife a nice cushy job as I recall to get his vote?
Honestly, 5his bill should have 0 support in the senate
“Surely they thought they could get him to cave on this.”
He SAYS he won’t vote with Biden, but has the vote occurred yet? (I actually don’t know.) Maybe he still can be bullied into going with them. Considering his constituency is more MAGA than not, he’d be smart to stick with his current decision.
Joe Manchin Dealt Mortal Blow To Voting Rights Legislation As He Killed Build Back Better.
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Joe Manchin must have a pretty clean past, because you know the dirty-tricks Chicago sleazeballs that run the Democrat Party now have thoroughly searched for anything to pressure this guy with
Congratulations to Joe for standing up to the thugs!!
EVERYTHING happens for a reason. Especially in DC.
Joe Manchin wants something. It must be something BIG or they would have given it to him.
Think. What could it be - other than the 2024 nomination?
He’s a Democrat. Trust me, he’s not holding this up because he’s worried about how much Other Peoples Money it’s going to cost.
The more the crazy Dems threaten him, the more popular he becomes in West Virginia.
Don’t know if he said it or not, but if he did, he was basically telling the truth.
Can’t be havin’ none of that truth tellin’ goin’ on in DC!
I agree, and I see the possibility of Tulsi as his running mate.
Joe, you have done well. Please do not cave. You have a history of that. Change that history.
This one is big.
If I'm wrong and he does however, he'll demonstrate more balls and a stiffer spine than the entire Republican Party COMBINED.
Manchin backtracks now after all he said yesterday will make him look like a typical democrat.
Then by all means Manchin should run on that.
Manchin might be very competitive in a national election among
full-spectrum electorate, but I can’t see how he could get past the Dem activists and primary voters. He’s now just about as hated among their hardcore as Liz Cheney is hated by us.
Manchin has as much chance at the dem nomination as Liz Cheney for the republican.
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