West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin teased a potential 2024 presidential run during a multi-day tour of the mountain state this week.
“The two-party system, unless it changes, will be the ruin of our country,” Manchin said in Charleston while touring a metal stamping plant. “I’m having a hard time, I really am.”
Manchin has publicly teased a possible presidential run as part of the third-party “No Labels” bid in 2024.
Democrats have loudly urged him to oppose the idea, fearing such a candidacy would take votes away from President Biden.
Manchin told reporters in West Virginia that he was “getting closer” to a decision by 2024, although he declined to go into details and repeated his oft-stated position that he would resolve it before the end of the year.
National Democrats would much prefer Manchin to run for re-election in West Virginia, keeping a critical seat blue as they seek to protect their majority from what experts predict will be a painful primary cycle.
“People need to wake up. It’s going to be a very discouraging Senate map for Democrats. No one can argue with that,” veteran Democratic political consultant James Carville told the Post. “It’s a bad year.”
Senator Joe Manchin has been publicly teasing a third-party presidential campaign in 2024.Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
Democrats would much prefer Manchin to run for re-election to the Senate in West Virginia. AP
Manchin, a Democratic senator in one of the most conservative states in the union, had long had to walk a tightrope between his red meat voters and his considerably more progressive Senate colleagues.
West Virginia backed former President Trump over President Biden with more than 68% of the vote in 2020.
While he has outperformed Republicans in the state before, the GOP has vowed to take back the seat for good in the next cycle and Manchin will likely face a stiff challenge from the state’s popular governor, Jim Justice.
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