Sen. Joe Manchin: Democrat ‘Brand got so Bad…It’s Toxic’
“And the Democratic Party, the Washington Democrats, have tried to mainstream the extreme.”
Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) destroyed the Democratic Party in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, describing the brand as “toxic.”
A clip from the CNN interview:
RAJU: Do you still consider yourself a Democrat?
MANCHIN: I am not a Democrat in the form of what the Democratic Party has turned itself into. The national brand? Absolutely not. And they know that. They’re all good people on both sides, but..
RAJU: What do you think is the reason for? You said you’re not a Democrat. What caused Joe Manchin to divorce himself…
MANCHIN: Here’s what I told them. I said you ought to figure out how you lost somebody like me. I was born as a Democrat because of my grandfather’s love of FDR. I was a very strong Democrat because of my families. The other John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I came through the whole iteration and that I was a Democrat in West Virginia, and it was always been a 75, 80% plurality. Of Democrat, registered Democrats. But there was a split. I was never on the liberal side of it. I was never on the establishment side.
So I always had to fight my way through.
RAJU: What was the shift? Social issues?
MANCHIN: Yeah. The brand got so bad. The D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint, of it’s toxic. And the brand is basically this. I told him, I said, first of all, as American and as someone in Senate, and I’m going to take the Constitution, of the Constitution that I take very seriously, I’m going to help every human being pursue the happiest life in their life.
It should have happened. I don’t care who they are. I don’t care what color. I don’t care any of the things who they love do it, and that’s you. I’m going to make sure you have the opportunity and right to live your life. Just don’t make your life if it might be on the extreme or in the minority, make me believe that’s the norm or make me and my family believe or my children believe or this or that? No. I will protect you. Just don’t try to mainstream it. And the Democratic Party, the Washington Democrats, have tried to mainstream the extreme.
Q. “Do you still consider yourself a Democrat?
Joe Manchin: “I am not a Democrat. In the form of what the Democratic Party has turned itself into, the national brand? Absolutely not…The brand got so bad, the “D-brand” has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just it’s… pic.twitter.com/tzvnVK7qbG
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 22, 2024
Manchin also slammed the progressives in Congress for “being out of touch with the majority of Americans” because the “country is not going left.”
At the Army-Navy game, Manchin told President-elect Donald Trump that he wants “to help any way” he can so that Trump can “succeed.”
Manchin did not say who he voted for in November but said “he likes Trump and gets ‘along fine’ with him.”
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Too little. Too late.
Manchin never met the side of an issue he wasn’t all on board with if the wind was right.
So why did he continue to caucus with the DemoncRats?
Probably because he didn’t want his house burned down.
‘Progressives’ only got away with so much for so long because not enough Republicans wanted to get involved with those messy social issues.
This is the thing to remember: Joe Biden didn’t do ANYTHING. What we saw in the last four years is the Democratic Party. The fact that Joe personally won’t be running in four years will not have any impact on what the Democratic Party wants to do…. the next Democrat to run for President will swear he’s different from Joe. Maybe, but the Party won’t be.
We must constantly remind people, the Devil only hides; he never disappears.
Joe Manchin: always there when you don’t need him.
Spineless.
democrats are no longer “liberals”
democrats are no longer “progressives”
democrats are now Marxists devoted to the erasure of the Constitution and the American way of life
with the exception of a very few, they’ve been this way openly since FDR
The only Democrat in the Senate I find myself agreeing with on occasion is Fetterman and I never saw that coming. He is still a progressive I think but is not a wild eyed lunatic like the rest of them. His support for Israel and meeting with Pete Hegseth is what the rest should be doing.
Asking penance after willful support of the Dem Party. Sorry Joe, no absolution for you.
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