New York Post
@nypost·2.4M subscribers·43.2K videos
Manchin passes on Senate re-election bid, setting up likely Republican gain
Posted
November 9, 2023
Views
3,447
Likes
70
Comments
57
Engagement
3.68%
November 9, 2023
3,447
70
57
3.68%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
0:40Now PlayingSen. Joe Manchin announced Thursday that he wil not vie for re-election next year, making Republicans the favorites to pick up another seat in the upper chamber of Congress.
Manchin (D-WV), a perennial thorn in the side of the Biden administration, would have likely faced a fierce battle against popular Republican Gov. Jim Justice had he decided to run.
“I’ve made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be running for reelection to the United States Senate,” Manchin declared in a video posted to X.
The 76-year-old senator was an increasingly isolated Democrat in a state that former President Donald Trump won by almost 30 percentage points in 2020.
Manchin’s team voiced confidence in public that he would prevail if he decided to defend his seat in the 2024 cycle, but polling generally showed him even with or behind Justice.
Read more at
#joemanchin #politics #congress #westvirginia
The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Subscribe to New York Post Sports
Catch the latest news here
Follow The New York Post on:
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
