West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) says he is “thinking seriously” about leaving the Democratic Party and declaring himself an independent before the 2024 election, when he will have to decide whet…
Why would that benefit Trump? Outside of WV, no one’s fooled him by. Everyone knows he’s a selfish conservative. He’d split the conservative vote if anything.
Yeah, he’s running in an R+22 state that voted Trump over Biden by 40 points. He knows the D brand is dogshit in his state, and so he’s gonna drag it through the mud over the next year to give himself as much breathing room as possible. People don’t understand how blood red West Virginia is nowadays. The best way to make his comings and goings absolutely irrelevant is to hold Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, and Montana, and potentially take Florida and Texas. This map is absolutely brutal, as Dems are running to keep several R-leaning states, and Republicans aren’t running to keep anything D-leaning.
He can’t win as a democrat. He’s behind Jim Justice 32-54. That’s a 22 point spread. He loses 16 points if he goes I. This is him trying to save a flagging campaign.
Honestly, I wish he’d go I and the dems pull his committees and his funds, and send them to races they have a chance of winning with candidates who will not extort them in an ongoing power play.
If Joe Manchin can’t win in WV as a Democrat, no one can. If he wins as an Independent and still caucuses with Democrats, that doesn’t change much.
He might run for President with No Labels and hand the presidency to Trump.
Why would that benefit Trump? Outside of WV, no one’s fooled him by. Everyone knows he’s a selfish conservative. He’d split the conservative vote if anything.
Are centrists unreliable voters or something?
Yeah, he’s running in an R+22 state that voted Trump over Biden by 40 points. He knows the D brand is dogshit in his state, and so he’s gonna drag it through the mud over the next year to give himself as much breathing room as possible. People don’t understand how blood red West Virginia is nowadays. The best way to make his comings and goings absolutely irrelevant is to hold Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, and Montana, and potentially take Florida and Texas. This map is absolutely brutal, as Dems are running to keep several R-leaning states, and Republicans aren’t running to keep anything D-leaning.
He can’t win as a democrat. He’s behind Jim Justice 32-54. That’s a 22 point spread. He loses 16 points if he goes I. This is him trying to save a flagging campaign.
Honestly, I wish he’d go I and the dems pull his committees and his funds, and send them to races they have a chance of winning with candidates who will not extort them in an ongoing power play.