Tag: Joe Manchin
Just 16% Would Consider Voting for Manchin on Third-Party Ticket
16%
A new Monmouth poll finds just 16% of registered voters would consider supporting a fusion third-party ticket with Sen. Joe Manchin (D) for president and former Gov. Jon Huntman (R) for vice president, highlighting the uphill path for such a ticket in the 2024 race.
Manchin Compares Dems and GOPers on Debt Ceiling, Spending
“My Democratic friends don’t want to say a word about our out of control spending and are outright refusing to even talk to Republicans about reasonable and responsible reforms… My Republican friends refused to offer any specifics, and some have recklessly threatened default, which is absolutely not on the table, cannot be on the table and will not happen.”
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by Politico.
Manchin Disses Hawley Over Hearings
“It’s Hawley, right? Take that for what it’s worth.”
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by the Washington Post, on the GOP attacks against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearings.
Manchin Wants to Raise Social Security Taxes
“You could raise it to $400,000 overnight… I’ve got the will to do it, that’s all I can tell you because I’ve got grandchildren. Ten grandchildren. We’ve got future generations depending on us to the right thing. I’m willing to do a lot of good things on climate too.”
— “Fired up by sky-high inflation prices, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he has the political will to do the unpopular thing: lift the cap on income taxed for Social Security to $400,000 in order to sustain that program,” Politico reports.
Clyburn Favors Option to Burning Down Filibuster
“I’m not going to say that you must get rid of the filibuster entirely. I would say you would do well to develop a Manchin-Sinema rule on getting around the filibuster as it relates to race and civil rights.”
— Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), quoted by The Guardian.
Joe Manchin Doesn’t Represent His Constituents
63%
Although Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he doesn’t support a federal minimum wage hike to $15 an hour, a new poll suggests that 63% of West Virginians support raising the minimum wage to that level by 2025.
Manchin: It’s Not Rational, It’s Politics
“You are not dealing with rationality here. You are dealing with pure politics and Mitch plays it harder than anybody.”
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by Spectrum News, after being asked if he was concerned Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) wasn’t doing more to hear from additional witnesses on impeachment.
Manchin Brings Clarity to O’Rourke Gun Comments
“Beto’s one human being. He gave his own opinion, OK? I think it was very harmful to make it look like all the Democrats. I can tell you one thing: Beto O’Rourke’s not taking my guns away from me. You tell Beto that, OK?”
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
Indecipherable Palin Tweet Translated: “I Don’t Know What I’m Talking About”
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, who can keep them straight? Not Sarah Palin, tweeting one of her highly-sought and overwrought endorsements for U.S. Senate candidate John Raese – to voters in the wrong state. CNN reports that, like all things Sarah does and then regrets, the tweet has been pulled from her Twitter feed.
The West Virginia Democratic Party took the opening on behalf of candidate Joe Manchin, releasing this swipe:
“With John Raese, it is easy to get confused as to where he actually lives. He may be running for Senate in West Virginia, but he really could choose to run in any of the states in which he belongs to a country club,” Chairman Larry Puccio said in the statement. “West Virginians can’t really fault Sarah Palin for getting confused – we are too.”
