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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., teased a possible third-party presidential bid after Tremendous Tuesday March 5.
“Tremendous Tuesday just about confirms no matter goes to occur, what we consider will occur, and we’ll see the place we go from there,” Manchin advised reporters Tuesday, the day of the New Hampshire main.
“However individuals are on the lookout for choices, and we’ll be that, too. Whether or not it is me or whoever it could be, I believe there’s going to be choices out there if it goes down the best way it is happening.”
MANCHIN ON 2024 PROSPECTS: ‘I’D NEVER BE A SPOILER’
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., waves to guests on the Senate steps as he leaves the Capitol after the final vote of the week in Washington Could 4, 2023. (CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
Manchin introduced he wouldn’t search re-election for his Senate seat final yr, creating hypothesis about whether or not he’d make a bid within the 2024 presidential race. Manchin, a Democrat, began a nationwide marketing campaign referred to as “People Collectively,” aiming to unite the nation’s average voters away from the “extremes” of the left and proper.
“We stand towards extremism in politics. It has taken over our political system and brought away our voice,” the People Collectively marketing campaign web site states. “As proud People, we agree on greater than we disagree. We demand that our flesh pressers put nation earlier than get together to get issues executed. Sufficient is sufficient.”
Sen. Joe Manchin, chairman of the Senate Power and Pure Assets Committee, questions Inside Secretary Deb Haaland throughout a listening to Could 2, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Photos)
Manchin additionally advised reporters he thinks former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ought to keep within the race regardless of a rising choir of GOP lawmakers calling on her to drop out and unite the get together behind former President Donald Trump.
Over the weekend, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his marketing campaign and endorsed Trump.
“I can’t consider the opposite ones stunned the best way they did. I simply can’t consider it as a result of it is onerous for me to fathom that. The nation is split. We do not must be divided anymore,” Manchin mentioned Tuesday.
FAR-LEFT GREEN ACTIVISTS ‘SURROUND’ JOE MANCHIN EVENT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE JUST WEEKS AFTER WHITE HOUSE INVITE
Sen. Joe Manchin questions Securities and Change Fee Chairman Gary Gensler as Gensler testifies earlier than the Monetary Companies and Basic Authorities Subcommittee July 19, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Photos)
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Creating much more hypothesis that he could announce a run was his return to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics Jan. 12 to headline Politics and Eggs, a should cease for potential and present presidential contenders.
Manchin has loads of fellow Democrats terrified the average from West Virginia will unintentionally hand the White Home over to Trump if he runs.
However Manchin dismisses such warnings, rejecting claims from fellow Democrats {that a} third-party run would harm President Biden’s probabilities of re-election in a possible rematch subsequent yr with Trump, who stays the commanding frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
“I might by no means be a spoiler for anyone, and I do not agree with … the evaluation that they’ve provide you with,” Manchin advised Fox Information’ host Brett Baier on “Particular Report” in November.
Fox Information’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
