Democrat Senator Hints At Withholding His Support From Biden In November

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who will be retiring in November, stated that he may withhold his support from President Biden in November during a recent interview.

Manchin — who had long been seen as a potential third-party presidential candidate for the No Labels movement in 2024 — was asked whether he plans on supporting Biden in November. “So, are you waiting for him to move, is that what you’re holding your endorsement for?” MSNBC’s Katy Tur asked the outgoing senator on Friday.

“I think he needs to move. I really do. I think the people want [him] to say, we made a mistake at the border, a big mistake at the border, but he’s willing to fix it,” Manchin replied. He went on to praise the ill-fated Senate immigration “deal,” which would have allowed upwards of 5,000 illegal aliens to enter the country every day, provide billions towards lawyers for asylum seekers, and hand out thousands of green cards through 2030. The deal was ultimately shot down in the Senate and was declared “dead on arrival” by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

“When you’re asking about immigration, what more do you want Joe Biden to do?” Tur then followed up.

“Well, first of all, if you want to blame Joe Biden, it’s his fault for what happened, but he did it [in] a sympathetic way, basically empathetic towards what was happening after a pandemic. He tried, and he saw we were getting overrun, we should have shut it down,” Manchin responded.

“So, now he comes to an agreement…a border security bill, that would work, and Donald Trump moves in and says, oh, I’m sorry, I can’t do that, because it’s not good for my campaign or my politics, let’s wait. That’s as bad, if not worse, than making a mistake [in] the beginning. So, with that, I said, okay, let’s fix it. I’m begging him now, if this can’t be fixed in Congress, to basically do and declare a national emergency, because the border is of a national concern and a national emergency.”