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At the very least he was a seat that put democrats in charge of the senate. Without him WV almost certainly get a red seat.
Given Biden’s poll numbers and the loss of the seat, we’re going to be dangerously close to a national abortion ban in 2024.
I know it’s cool to hate him and all, but can West Virginia actually do better than him?
Unfortunately, no. That seat is lost to the Dems for the foreseeable future.
I’d disagree. Last year and this year proved to be a thorough rejection of the GOP’s fascist bullshit. If the Democrats had actually run candidates in the other off year elections this year in the deep south, I feel like we would have seen some purple poking through
lol no. In 2020 Biden lost WV by over 40 points and so did the Dem running for Senate there.
The state legislature has an 89-11 Republican majority in the house of delegates and a 31-3 Republican majority in the Senate.
And it’s only getting redder.
That seat will be lost to republicans for generations. Manchin was only electable as a Dem because he was a very popular governor. He’s the only Dem in the state that could win it.
People cheering for this are absolute fucking idiots.
Yeah exactly. We are losing someone who votes with Dems like 80% of the time to an actual Republican who will be closer to 10%.
Y’know, I get the whole ‘but it’s a red-as-fuck state so we have to take a safe centrist candidate’ thing, but are you fucking kidding me? Centrist democrats give democrats a terrible name in the first place- they’re corporate creatures whose favorite pastime is hunting the poor for sport and colluding with right-wingers to suppress labor rights and make corporate power unassailable.
Fuck that guy
I feel like if a progressive Democratic candidate in WV ran on that exact message they’d get elected.
That’s because they’re not Democrats. Their Republicans from the 1980s.
Alternate headline: Corrupt politician decides to cash in
Wasn’t this guy just in the news for kicking the infrastructure bill (which was effectively meant to be our try at national-level climate action) repeatedly in the balls, cutting climate and infrastructure spending by like half - and then holding the whole thing up at the end when his clients/constituents presumably realized that one of the provisions in the bill would jeopardize the pipeline deal they had been working on (which, surprise, happened to go through some frontline communities, etc etc)?
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Oh noooo……with Manchin and Sinema leaving Glitch McCONnell has no Manchurian candidate left in senate democrat camp
There’s always a rotating villain…
