Why switching parties would be idiotic for Joe Manchin

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A report on Wednesday suggested that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told associates that he "is considering leaving the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill do not agree to his demand to cut the size of the social infrastructure bill from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion."

Manchin quickly shot the idea down.

"It's bulls--t," he told CNN's Manu Raju. "I have no control of rumors."

Manchin told CNN's Ali Zaslav on Thursday that he never considered switching parties, but he acknowledged that that he had given some thought to becoming an independent who caucuses with Democrats a la Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.

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Which is the right take for Manchin! Because it makes zero sense for Manchin to switch from the Democratic to Republican Party!

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He would be in the party out of power in the White House through at least 2024. That fact would drastically reduce his ability to influence legislation coming out of the White House -- especially if Democrats wound up winning back the Senate in the 2022 elections. (If Manchin switched parties, Republicans would hold a single seat majority.)

Manchin would also join the small ranks of (relatively) moderate senators that includes Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah. And, he would undoubtedly become -- as those senators have become -- a major target for former President Donald Trump in his unending quest to root out all RINOs (Republican In Name Only) from the Republican Party.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-switching-parties-would-be-idiotic-for-joe-manchin/ar-AAPNjKL

[Bleacher Creature]

1. This is so obvious that even Chris Cillizza gets it!!!

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2. Manchin is toast.

Unless he winds up doing something that West Virginians see as benefitting their job situation, like the almost 70% of them who want to see the Build Back Better passed, and the voting rights bill, there is no way they will re-elect him.

West Virginia, in spite of the fact that Trump got higher percentages of the vote here than in almost any other state, is a potential takeback for the Democrats when they decide they really are for the working class again and do something to make that known. Manchin needs to sit down with Bernie Sanders and find out how he managed to win the full support of the Democrats there, along with a good percentage of Republicans who realize Trump is all talk and once you've been used to get what he wants, he's done with you.