West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin teased a possible 2024 presidential run during a multi-day swing through the Mountain State this week.
“The two-party system, unless it changes, will be the downfall of our country,” Manchin said in Charleston while visiting a metal stamping plant. “I’m having a hard time – I really am.”
Manchin has publicly teased a possible presidential run as part of a third-party “No Label” ticket in 2024.
Democrats have urged him against the idea, fearing that such a nomination would take votes away from President Biden.
Manchin told reporters in West Virginia that he was “getting closer” to a 2024 decision — though he declined to get into specifics and repeated his oft-stated stance that he would think about it by the end of the year.
National Democrats prefer to run Manchin for re-election in West Virginia, keeping critical blue seats as they look to protect their majorities from what experts predict will be a bruising primary cycle.
“People need to wake up. It will be a very scary Senate map for Democrats. Nobody can dispute that,” Veteran Democratic political consultant James Carville told The Post. “It was a terrible year.”
Sen. Joe Manchin has publicly teased a third-party presidential campaign in 2024. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
Democrats prefer Manchin to run for re-election to the Senate from West Virginia. AP
Manchin, a Democratic senator in one of the most conservative states in the union, has long been torn between his red-meat constituents and his far more progressive Senate colleagues.
West Virginia supported former President Trump over President Biden with over 68% of the vote in 2020.
Although he has defeated Republicans in the state before, the GOP has vowed to take the seat back for good in the coming cycle and Manchin will likely face a stiff challenge from the state’s popular governor Jim Justice.
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