{"id":598324,"date":"2023-11-20T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/senate-democrats-warn-manchin-that-running-for-president-would-risk-disaster\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:30:00","slug":"senate-democrats-warn-manchin-that-running-for-president-would-risk-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/senate-democrats-warn-manchin-that-running-for-president-would-risk-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"#Senate Democrats warn Manchin that running for president would risk disaster\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/Manchin-fear_112023_Illustration_Alexandra-Graff-Greg-Nash-and-Asobe-Stock.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s (D-W.Va.) flirtation with a third-party presidential bid after announcing his retirement from the Senate is sparking anxiety among Democratic senators who warn that Manchin would make a big mistake if he challenges President Biden. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers say that if Manchin runs for president as an independent it will hurt Biden\u2019s re-election chances and could result in what they view as the nightmare scenario of electing Donald Trump to a second White House term. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Democratic senators were less concerned about a potential Manchin presidential run a few months ago when they thought he was still likely to run for another Senate term. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Biden\u2019s polling numbers have gotten worse in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup with Trump, who faces 91 felony charges, and Manchin has announced he will retire from the Senate after next year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be very, very unfortunate if Joe Manchin decided to do that,\u201d Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said of a possible Manchin presidential run. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s a supporter of President Biden and has been an important person here in the U.S. Senate in terms of getting things done. And he knows that if he were to step in [to the race] that it would make it much more likely Donald Trump would be president again and I know Joe Manchin doesn\u2019t want that,\u201d Stabenow said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, however, last week didn\u2019t rule out the possibility of running for president on the No Labels ticket or another independent platform, telling CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> that he has \u201cplenty of time\u201d to make a decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he rejected fears voiced by other Democrats that he would sink Biden\u2019s re-election if he throws his hat into the ring. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t buy that scenario,\u201d Manchin told CBS\u2019s Norah O\u2019Donnell. \u201cI\u2019ve heard that. And \u2014 and I wouldn\u2019t buy that scenario because if you look back in history, how things have played out, I don\u2019t think that they thought Ross Perot would elect Bill Clinton,\u201d referring to three-way presidential election race in 1992.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d host Kristen Welker that he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d consider a run for president. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will do anything I can to help my country,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Manchin has argued during much of Biden\u2019s presidency that national politics have become too polarized and that millions of voters in the middle of the ideological spectrum don\u2019t have enough of a voice in Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to do everything in my power to make sure, to mobilize that moderate, sensible, common-sense middle,\u201d he pledged. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kott, a Democratic strategist and former Manchin advisor, said the senator\u2019s musings about running for president should be taken seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI always take Joe Manchin at his word. I think the first thing he\u2019s going to do is go around the country, see if he can mobilize what he thinks is a moderate majority of voters, people who want their government to get stuff done and not the people who focus on the fighting of the extremes of each party,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kott said Manchin is \u201cgoing to spend time talking to voters to see if there\u2019s an <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>etite\u201d for his brand of centrism. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s recent statements have Democratic colleagues jittery that he could indeed decide to challenge Biden, even though they and most political experts say the West Virginia senator wouldn\u2019t have any realistic chance of winning the presidency himself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMy reaction is disappointment, deep disappointment,\u201d said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). \u201cAt his core I think Joe Manchin is a Democrat and believes in Democratic values and principles. I\u2019m deeply disappointed that he is still even talking about a possible run that would undermine Joe Biden. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple stark fact is that a Manchin run for president would undercut Joe Biden,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal warned that a second Trump term would be a catastrophe for the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is more frightening to me than any other political event in my lifetime. I think it\u2019s a real prospect of the United States turning its back on democracy if he is elected president,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has increasingly voiced his frustrations with Biden over the past year and a half and pointedly declined to endorse him for a second term. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Joe Biden runs again and he is the Democratic nominee, depending on who the Republican nominee is, we will just have to wait and see,\u201d he told Chris Cuomo on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cCUOMO.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u00a0Manchin earlier this year accused Biden of showing a \u201cdeficiency of leadership\u201d for letting more than two months pass between meetings with then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) while the nation was facing a potential default because of the expiration of the debt limit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Democratic strategists argue that Manchin could pull votes away from Trump in a three-way race but they acknowledge the 2024 presidential race will be so close that it\u2019s hard to predict the outcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could swing that race in one direction or the other,\u201d said Steve Jarding, a strategist who has worked for various Democratic senators with presidential ambitions. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jarding noted that one major difference between 2024 and 1992, the last time a third-party presidential candidate had a major impact on a race for the White House, is that this year\u2019s leading candidates, Biden and Trump, are both highly unpopular. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s a significant portion of Americans that were either going to stay home \u2026 or want to take their frustration out, [Manchin] could get votes,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But he predicted Manchin won\u2019t win a single electoral vote, just as Perot failed to do 30 years ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes from a small state. He\u2019ll get exposed,\u201d he said, explaining that if Manchin gains traction in the race he\u2019ll face an barrage of investigations and negative advertising that will dig into his personal business dealings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen either Trump or Biden see he\u2019s hurting them more than the other side, they\u2019ll take him down, they\u2019ll go after him,\u201d Jarding said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s hard running in a third party, it\u2019s hard to get on the ballot, it\u2019s hard to get traction because nobody thinks he can win,\u201d he added. \u201cHe would face very strong headwinds so I don\u2019t see how he could even come close to winning a state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe easily could hurt Biden more than Trump but because both [Biden and Trump] are so disliked by a significant portion of the voting population, I\u2019m not sure of that,\u201d he said. \u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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