.Sen_JoeManchin appears to be on the warpath against his own party as Gov. JimJusticeWV enters the West Virginia Senate race.
Manchin, a vulnerable Democrat up for reelection in 2024 in a ruby-red state, has recently begun bucking the party line more consistently, even though he hasn’t declared whether he will run for reelection in 2024.While most Senate Democrats are echoing President Joe Biden’s opposition to negotiating with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the debt ceiling, Manchin continues to urge the president to do the opposite.
Manchin has been frustrated with how the legislation has been implemented. As the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, he threatened to sue the Biden administration in the last month after the Treasury Department unveiled stricter electric vehicle tax rules, which he slammed as insufficient when they were unveiled.
Senate Democrats and Biden tread lightly around the West Virginia Democrat, careful not to criticize him specifically. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question from a reporter on Wednesday when asked about Manchin’s threat to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a key legislative achievement for Biden and Senate Democrats.
“Anything that keeps him in the public eye the most, I think he assumes the more attention is good attention,” said Rob Cornelius, a longtime GOP campaign consultant in West Virginia. “He has to buck the party in order to keep happy the voters he thinks will come home to him in West Virginia, who are now Republicans or Democrats who supported Trump by the hundreds of thousands. He thinks he can get those people back to trust him again, and the problem is he’s gone both ways on so many issues.
“Every opponent you have is strong and threatening or they wouldn’t jump in if they didn’t think they had a chance, so you take them all seriously,” Manchin said to reporters on Thursday. “I lost one race in 1996. I made a vow that I’ll never lose another race,” he added.
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