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6:17Now PlayingWest Virginia Senator Joe Manchin makes unexpected announcement over his re-election and suspicious plans to travel the country posing questions on his Presidential election aspirations and where the Democrats will be left in the Senate. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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Joe Manchin retires, making Democrats’ brutal 2024 Senate map even more brutal
"Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will not run for reelection — a decision that likely means Democrats will lose a Senate seat in the narrowly divided chamber in 2024.
The stubborn centrist represented one of the most Republican states in the country — one that Trump won by nearly a 39 percentage point margin in 2020. Yet Manchin was able to defy West Virginia’s partisan leanings via his long history in state politics, including as a former governor, dating back to the years when Democrats won the state regularly.
Since then, the West Virginia Democratic Party has been decimated, as the state’s voters have increasingly voted with their national partisan loyalties. It is hard to believe any other potential Democratic nominee would be able to match Manchin’s political strength there.
Democrats currently have a 51-49 majority in the Senate, so losing Manchin’s seat would put them back to 50-50 — still enough for control if President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris win reelection."
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