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In a transfer that is positive to spark extra hypothesis a couple of potential 2024 presidential run, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will return subsequent month to the state that for a century has held the primary presidential main within the White Home race.
Manchin, who for months has brazenly flirted with making a third-party White Home run subsequent yr, will return to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Jan. 12 to headline Politics and Eggs, a should cease for potential and precise presidential contenders.
The announcement of Manchin’s go to – by Saint Anselm School and the New England Council, which co-host Politics and Eggs – additionally famous {that a} new group based by the senator to “empower average voices across the nation… is launching a listening tour in January beginning in New Hampshire.”
Manchin’s go to is bound to seize loads of media protection, because it comes three days earlier than the Iowa caucuses kick off the Republican presidential nominating calendar and fewer than two weeks earlier than New Hampshire’s main, which is the second contest within the GOP schedule.
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Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia (and former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah headline an occasion by the centrist group No Labels, on July 17, 2023, on the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester. (Fox Information )
Manchin has loads of fellow Democrats terrified that the average from West Virginia will unintentionally hand the White Home over to former President Donald Trump if he runs.
However Manchin dismisses such warnings, rejecting claims from fellow Democrats {that a} third occasion run would harm President Biden’s possibilities of re-election in a probable rematch subsequent yr with Trump, who stays the commanding frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
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“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” final month.
And he reiterated that “I might by no means be a spoiler” in an interview final week on Fox Information’ “Hannity.”
Manchin has mentioned he worries that the 81-year-old Biden, saddled with deeply underwater approval scores, is not as much as the duty of defeating Trump subsequent yr. And Manchin has repeatedly warned, “I consider that Donald Trump being elected once more would destroy democracy as we all know it.”
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Manchin made nationwide headlines final month by saying that he would not search re-election subsequent yr within the Senate, putting a serious blow to the Democrats’ hopes of holding their razor-thin majority within the chamber in 2024.
He additionally teased a possible third-party presidential marketing campaign and within the ensuing days advised NBC Information that he’d “completely” contemplate a White Home run and CBS Information that there is “loads of time” to decide.
Sen. Joe Manchin at a Senate Monetary Companies and Normal Authorities Subcommittee listening to, on July 19, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
In a CNN interview final weekend, he mentioned, “There isn’t a timeline,” on when he would decide.
Manchin argues that nationwide politics has more and more grow to be too polarized, leaving hundreds of thousands of voters in the course of the ideological spectrum with out a lot of a voice within the nation’s capital.
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And far of the hypothesis surrounding a attainable Manchin nationwide run focuses on No Labels, the influential centrist group that is significantly mulling supporting a bipartisan, third-party presidential ticket, if Biden and Trump are the foremost occasion nominees within the 2024 election.
The go to to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics subsequent month will likely be Manchin’s second in lower than a yr.
The previous No Labels chair grabbed loads of nationwide consideration in July as he served as honorary co-host of the group’s “Frequent Sense” city corridor on the institute, the place they unveiled their coverage proposals.
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based mostly in New Hampshire.
