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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Machin angling for a Presidential run? Would you support him if he won the nomination?
Starting to wonder about this guy.
Budi
(15,325 posts)🙄
LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,234 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)JohnSJ
(92,325 posts)msongs
(67,433 posts)LoisB
(7,222 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)But who knows.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)And he voted to remove Trump twice. In truth, he could not win the nomination of either party.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)If its him v any Republican in the general, Id hold my nose and vote for him, but I dont think he has enough support among Dems to get the nomination
texasfiddler
(1,990 posts)He has to show performative defiance against those who oppose corporate and business greed and interests.
Haggard Celine
(16,849 posts)he wouldn't even carry his home state. So no, he's not running for another office. I don't think he will even run for Senator again.
Vinca
(50,300 posts)investments growing bigger and bigger and bigger. It's a shame West Virginia isn't covered in solar panels instead of nasty coal mines. Manchin would be all in then if he could bring in the odd million or so a year from it.
Haggard Celine
(16,849 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We could buy him and them off, get them out of the damned way, and do some good!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,845 posts)Ocelot II
(115,806 posts)a snowball's chance in Hell of even getting the nomination, and anyhow he has a lot more power as a single senator who can torpedo the entire party if they don't kiss his ass.
Caliman73
(11,742 posts)If he is looking to run as a Democrat for the Presidency, I can with 99% certainty, say that it will never happen. He will not win against any halfway moderate Democrat. If he is thinking of switching parties and running as a Republican, there are much crazier candidates in that party and that seems to be what the GOP is looking for.
He is angling to keep the coal business that pays him half a million a year and the other companies that pay his campaign coffers the money he needs to stay Senator of WV, alive and well.
FBaggins
(26,756 posts)He wouldnt be a viable candidate outside of WV.
gohuskies
(1,156 posts)His stubborn obstruction to right the ship is putting the nation at risk along with Sinema, they are handing control of the political agenda to the rethuglicants who clearly choose dictatorship over real governance. Manchin is for special interests and not for the majority of Americans. I will not support any run for President by Manchin. He is showing where his loyalties really reside.
mahina
(17,692 posts)Oligarchs already have enough power, more then.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)Manchin would never win the Democratic nomination in a million years.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)elleng
(131,056 posts)No.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)he better worry about staying in the Senate.
leftstreet
(36,110 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)BlueCheeseAgain
(1,654 posts)No, he's not angling for a presidential run.
DFW
(54,428 posts)I wouldn't use being 74 years old as a disqualifying factor any more.
DFW
(54,428 posts)So no one has to worry about supporting him for anything other than the position he holds now.
Walleye
(31,035 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,610 posts)I don't believe he's delusional enough to try.
budkin
(6,713 posts)NO
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)As a MAGAt he voted for impeachment, as an independent he cant raise enough money for $1billion race and Mitch McConnell wants to crush him. He has a lot of work to do to shore up relationships either way.
ColinC
(8,318 posts)But I'm starting to wonder if he would even win WV
Aristus
(66,436 posts)Repukes want a candidate who's not afraid of the Republican moniker, and Democrats want a real Democrat. West Virginia ranks at the bottom of so many lists in this country; I'm sure 'ability to influence a national election' is probably one of them.
Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)I have limits.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . that would be the day I would leave the party.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)ever.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)How do you figure that?
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Surely he knows that the Presidency is completely out of his reach. Plus, it's MANCHIN, not MACHIN. Geez!
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)he is against all I stand for
Hotler
(11,440 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)Not in a million years..
Polybius
(15,465 posts)Who would be more angry, Democrats or Republicans?
Skittles
(153,174 posts)but it would be like picking the better Menendez brother