The media like to pretend that West Virginia communist Democrat Joe Manchin is some sort of “moderate” communist. He’s no moderate, he’s just as left wing and corrupt as Chuck Schumer. He’s also up for re-election in 2024, a presidential election year and will likely be crushed if he runs again. So now he’s dropping hints that he may not run again. Manchin, like Fauci is a media, attention whore.
Some are saying he may run for governor of West Virginia again. Good luck with that commie!
Joe Manchin strongly signaled in 2018 that his brutal reelection campaign that year was his last. Now, as he marshals the entire Senate in his centrist direction, he’s not so sure he’ll call it quits.
The West Virginia Democrat is steadily padding his campaign coffers, raising $1.6 million in the first six months this year and sitting on nearly $4 million for a potential race that wouldn’t occur for three years. His colleagues say he’s not acting like a senator in his last term, despite his famous assertion during his last campaign that Washington “sucks.”
And as the 50th Democratic vote, Manchin is charting a bipartisan course for the Senate alongside a like-minded band of moderates in both parties, not to mention serving alongside a president who shares his back-slapping and horse-trading DNA. Instead of sucking, Manchin now says Washington has “accomplished more than we have for the 10 years I’ve been here.”
“You never know. You don’t know. There’s always a chance, absolutely,” Manchin said in an interview. When it comes to a potential reelection campaign alongside a presidential race in 2024, Manchin said: “You better be prepared, that’s all I can say. And I’m being prepared.”
Manchin won his 2018 campaign by 3 percentage points, a scare for a former governor who won his 2012 race by 24 points. His fundraising also helps keep up appearances to maintain his sway in the evenly divided Senate: Retiring lawmakers often wield less influence than those who are running again — or at least considering it.
Manchin is a bulwark of Democrats’ majority alongside Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a trio of senators from states that Trump won twice. Democrats’ long-term future in the Senate looks much better if they run again.