Message from @[Lex]
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Remember, Trump can shoot down the man's entire canpaign with a single tweet
Blankenship is a former political prisoner of the Obama Administration.
I doubt he can run with money.
Fallout 76
Manchin should just switch parties at this point
Manchin is so two-faced
When it comes to a real, narrow vote
Manchin votes left.
100% of the time
Sometimes he'll vote for the GOP when the margin is under 20 or something
But if the margin is within like
0-3
Manchin will let Pence issue a tie-breaking vote.
Or he'll cast the deciding "No" himself
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/394933-manchin-warns-trump-against-picking-court-nominee-who-will-overturn-roe-v - despite being a self-proclaimed "pro-lifer", he urged Trump to select a centrist so that Roe v Wade wouldn't be repealed.
https://www.axios.com/joe-manchins-tightrope-on-planned-parenthood-1513302138-68ada8fc-68af-48cb-a5cd-529b1fc7e68c.html - voted in favour of continuing PP funding
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-joe-manchin-draws-support-background-checks-article-1.1373527 - voted for a bill which would greatly expand background checks
www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/06/28/joe_manchin_still_doesn_t_like_obamacare.html - campaigned against Obamacare in his 2010 campaign, voted the very next year FOR Obamacare, as well as continuing its funding in subsequent years.
<@&417407302526828544> Good arguments against Manchin.
They call it a fine line; I call it a flip-flop.
Don't forget that Manchin promised to repeal Obamacare, then betrayed his promise.
I don't trust him a bit to keep his promise on the wall OR voting Trump in 2020.
"Too liberal for the Democratic Party, too conservative for West Virginia"
>every fucking time he could make a difference as a Democrat swing vote, he sticks with the party
He basically doesn't vote with the Republicans unless he's a non-deciding vote.
It's actually at such a level that it seems strategic.
Now look at this vote to cut $15B in spending
Could've passed if he defected, but no, Collins voted no so he used that as a justification to vote no himself.
But if he only voted Republican when it's passing, it would be confusing to many.
So he votes Republican when measures fail by fairly large margins as well.
In addition, he goes a bit farther.
Whenever a vote passes perfectly along party lines, Manchin votes no.
Manchin is almost always, if not always, accompanied by other Democrats when he votes.
So when Trump passed tax reform, Manchin stood with the Democrats just to pile on a "No Democrat voted for it. Total party line vote" talking point to use as ammo for his campaign, rather than doing bipartisan outreach.
Then there's several other votes with stuff like contractual law, appointments, and so on where they've been inoffensive enough that the Democrats haven't filibustered them--which effectively means unanimous consent to holding a vote on Republican legislation--and he's sent it to Pence's desk just to hurt the GOP more.
this is my pasta from above in regards to Manchin and his daughter Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan Pharmaceuticals
we could try to throw some dirt on him
his daughter runs Mylan Pharma
and they just left the state to outsource
they were founded in Motown
had a huge plant in motown they just shut down
to hire pajeets instead
and she jacked the epipen price way up
plus she only got the job cuz of her dad
she didnt even actually finish her degree
her name is Heather Bresch
shes got all kinds of skeletons
also they might have been included in the recent opiod indictments
ill have to dig on that account
if so that is a huge issue we could push
wv is one of the worst opiod pill states there is
if we could link opiod indictments to the daughter of manchin through her company that just fled the state, we might have something
