{"id":583229,"date":"2023-07-18T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/manchin-keeps-presidential-buzz-alive-with-new-hampshire-visit\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T02:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:15:07","slug":"manchin-keeps-presidential-buzz-alive-with-new-hampshire-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/manchin-keeps-presidential-buzz-alive-with-new-hampshire-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Manchin keeps presidential buzz alive with New Hampshire visit \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/manchinjoe_050223gn06_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is keeping his Democratic colleagues guessing about whether he will run for another Senate term or challenge President Biden as a third-party candidate, which Democrats fear would tip the 2024 presidential race to Donald Trump or another Republican and create a tougher road to keeping their Senate majority.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He stirred new speculation Monday by speaking at a town hall event in New Hampshire sponsored by No Labels, a centrist group that plans to raise $70 million to field a third-party \u201cunity ticket\u201d in next year\u2019s presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Manchin argued Monday that the parties have \u201creceded\u201d to the \u201cextreme\u201d edges of the political spectrum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to make sure that the American people have an option, and the option is can you move the political parties off their respective sides \u2014they\u2019ve gone too far right and too far left,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But when asked about his presidential ambitions, he said that\u2019s \u201cputting the cart ahead of the horse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not here running for president,\u201d he said of his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance in the presidential battleground state. \u201cI\u2019m here trying basically to save the nation. I\u2019m concerned more now than I\u2019ve ever been concerned in my lifetime. I have three children and 10 grandchildren.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was invited to speak at the event to mark the release of No Labels\u2019s \u201cCommon Sense\u201d policy booklet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newly unveiled centrist platform seeks to bridge the divide between the parties on a range of issues, such as immigration, gun violence and abortion rights.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Manchin on Monday called for policymakers to seek common ground in the spirit of the platform. He endorsed a cap on federal spending but fended off questions about requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for the cleanup of carbon pollution or placing a tax on carbon emissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s continued refusal to rule out a third-party presidential bid is stirring alarm among Democrats, who warn it will hurt Biden\u2019s chances of winning a second term.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked Monday if he considered himself an independent or a Democrat, Manchin declared: \u201cI\u2019m the most independent Democrat\u201d you\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Democratic strategists are urging Manchin, who is 75, to run for a fourth Senate term, warning he has no realistic path to winning the presidency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think that Donald Trump can beat Joe Biden one-on-one. He needs help, and a third-party candidate, particularly one from the center, would give him the help that he needs,\u201d said Jim Kessler, the executive vice president for policy at Third Way and a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).\u00a0\u201cUltimately, I don\u2019t think Joe Manchin is going to run for president because he has absolutely zero chance of winning one Electoral College vote, let alone 270, and I say that as a fan of Joe Manchin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin says he will decide his political future at the end of the year or early in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>He raised $1.3 million in the second fundraising quarter, giving him $10.7 million in the bank \u2014 a fundraising haul Democratic strategists say is more in line for a Senate campaign than a presidential campaign.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who is running for the GOP presidential nomination, by comparison, announced he raised $6.1 million in the second quarter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategists say flirting with an independent presidential bid is good for Manchin\u2019s brand in West Virginia, a state Trump carried with 68 percent of the vote in 2016 and 69 percent in 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But they predict at the end of the day, Manchin won\u2019t want to swing the 2024 race to Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Manchin likes to keep people guessing. He will likely take every platform afforded to him to advance his political belief and agenda, but that being said, he\u2019s a lifelong Democrat, and I find it hard to believe that he would do anything to jeopardize President Biden\u2019s chances of winning reelection,\u201d said Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic strategist and former Senate leadership aide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis narrative from the beginning has been that he\u2019s a different kind of Democrat, that he\u2019s a middle-of-the-road Democrat,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is an opportunity to further embrace that narrative by appearing at a No Labels event.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Manchin on Monday said he was saddened by many Americans\u2019 lack of faith in the political system and widespread belief among Trump supporters that the 2020 election was stolen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so sad to be in a situation to live in a great country such as this where people are led astray through either <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> [or] in so many different ways they\u2019re receiving their information,\u201d he said, adding it\u2019s troubling when a candidate \u201cbelieves the only fair election is the one they win,\u201d alluding to Trump\u2019s unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin faces a tough battle if he decides to run for reelection after an East Carolina University Center for Survey Research poll published in May showed him trailing West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) by 22 points \u2014 54 percent to 32 percent \u2014 in a hypothetical matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Democratic strategists and nonpartisan political experts warn Manchin would have no shot at winning the presidency given the unlikelihood of any third-party candidate winning a majority in a battleground state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They argue the nation\u2019s largest states, such as California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas, which have the most Electoral College votes, tilt decidedly toward either the Democratic or Republican parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they point out the $70 million No Labels plans to raise to get its candidate on the ballot in all 50 states is only a small fraction of the amount a third-party challenger would need to raise to defeat Biden or the Republican nominee. Biden and the Democratic National Committee, for example, announced raising $72 billion in the second quarter of this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said \u201cmany Democrats expect Sen. Manchin to run for reelection to save that [Senate] seat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing to understand about third parties is they don\u2019t win, and the only thing they wound up doing is tipping the balance, in this case, to Donald Trump,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Downey also questioned the sources of No Labels funding to get a third-party line on the ballot in all 50 states.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, we don\u2019t know where the money is coming from,\u201d he said. \u201cThe $70 million that No Labels is touting has all been dark money.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Downey, who was in New Hampshire for the Manchin event, is working with former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) to oppose the No Labels third-party presidential push.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), one of the co-chairmen of No Labels, argued at Monday\u2019s event that polls show voters across the ideological spectrum are unenthusiastic about a Biden-Trump rematch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s relationship with Biden has been on a roller coaster over the past 2 1\/2 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He regularly expressed admiration for Biden during the early months of his administration and cast a key vote for Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which passed the evenly divided Senate on a party-line vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But talks between Manchin and the White House over Biden\u2019s ambitious $3.5 trillion Build Back Better agenda broke down in December 2021, and Manchin delivered a blow to fellow Democrats by announcing on Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> he couldn\u2019t support the White House framework.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s climate and tax agenda appeared dead in the water until Manchin suddenly resurrected it by announcing a deal he negotiated in secret with Schumer to establish a 15 percent corporate minimum tax, empower Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, invest $369 billion in programs to promote domestic energy production and fight climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That deal, however, appeared to hurt Manchin\u2019s approval ratings in West Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Morning Consult poll published in October showed his approval rating in his home state dropped by double digits, from 60 percent among registered voters in early 2022 to 42 percent six months later.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year, the West Virginia senator sharply criticized Biden\u2019s leadership because of how his administration implemented the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which Manchin coauthored, and threatens to become a political liability for the West Virginia centrist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has already helped derail several high-profile Biden nominees \u2014 such as Neera Tanden, the president\u2019s pick to head the White House budget office, and Gigi Sohn, Biden\u2019s choice to serve on the Federal Communications Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin slammed the president this spring for not showing enough leadership in curbing the growth of the federal debt and for his initial refusal to negotiate with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on raising the debt limit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he has won some important victories recently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The debt limit deal negotiated in May by Biden and McCarthy included expedited approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a top Manchin priority that is estimated to create 2,000 jobs in West Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The groundwork for including language to fast-track the pipeline was laid down during Manchin\u2019s negotiations with Schumer in 2022 on the Inflation Reduction Act.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In more good news for Manchin, who has made inflation and the federal deficit a top issue, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that annual inflation dropped to 3 percent in June \u2014 well below its recent high of 9.1 percent in June of 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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