Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) claimed the Senate’s failure to pass a border and foreign aid bill was the “biggest” reason he chose not to run for president.
Manchin, who announced he was not running for president on Friday, said the lack of bipartisan cooperation on the border deal despite the country’s border crisis was a major factor and blamed former President“I always believed that we could legislate through a crisis. We’d come together for a crisis. Well, guess what, we have a crisis. The border is a crisis,” ManchinCNN on Monday.
Although Manchin has ruled out a presidential bid for himself, he has not settled on a candidate to support instead. , said if it came down to Trump and Biden on the main party tickets in November, he would consider what other third-party or independent choices there are. “I’m not endorsing anybody right now. We’re gonna see what all happens. We’ve still got plenty of time here. I’m gonna do everything I can to help move them back to the middle and show them where the strength of this country lies, where the voting bloc of the country lies,” Manchin said. “Right now, there might be other people getting in, there’re still independents, you might have still a third-party run from No Labels, and we’ll just see what opportunities and what type of options you have.
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