Joe Manchin Teams Up With No Labels For Presidential Run

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin might not be running for Senate again, but that doesn’t mean he’s done with politics. According to a new report, the senator from West Virginia has created a new “centrist” organization that is looking to remake politics – which really just means looking out for corporate interests. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Democrat Senator Joe Manchin might not be running for Senate again, but that doesn't mean he's done with politics. According to a new report, the senator from West Virginia's created a new centrist organization that's looking to remake politics, which really just means looking out for corporate interest. Now, it's interesting, you and I have done stories on this organization for how many years? 10 years.

Yeah. Almost 20.

They've been out there almost kind of kicking around 10 or 20 years. No Labels. Talk about it.

Yeah. No Labels, which basically just means we're a corporate front group pretending to be a political party. And Joe Manchin has always flirted with No Labels. And right now he's flirting with them to the point where there is huge speculation he's gonna run for president under their banner.

What's he doing with American Together.

Yeah. Americans Together. That is the dark money group. It's registered to where they don't have to reveal their corporate donors and it's funneling a ton of money into No Labels. Mm-Hmm. But, technically, Joe Manchin, his name is not on the organization. What it is, is his daughter, the former pharma CEO, Heather Bresch. And Bresch is the one who when she took over Mylan, jacked up the prices on all the EpiPens. I was.

Was it it 2000%? I mean, some Godly.

Yeah. I was paying $1,200 twice a year for a single EpiPen for my children. And so to me, whenever I talk about Heather Bresch, it is very personal because I lost thousands of dollars every year because of Heather Bresch.

A lot of people did. And the point is just again, all right, well he's an important politician. Corporate media barely covered the story. You had to hunt the story, really, you had to hunt for the story. But the point is, No Labels, just so you understand and viewers understand, No Labels is just centrist blue dog Democrats that care nothing more than about how does Wall Street do. That's what it is. And it could be a real deal. People like, they might not like him all over the country, but the South likes Manchin.

Yeah, they do.

And conservative areas in this country like Manchin. He's very good on his feet. He's a threat.

He really is. And up to about a year ago, he was actually the fifth most popular senator in their home state.

Really? Wow.

So, even West Virginia loved him. And it's not because, oh, he did all this stuff for us. It's because he did nothing. Because that's what No Labels is all about.

Doing nothing.

Yeah. It's not about, we've gotta make the lives of these people better. It's no, we maintain the status quo because the status quo works wonderfully for these corporations.

It's like the last story we just did. Don't prosecute these criminals when they kill people because they're dressed up in suits and they have MBAs from Harvard and Yale. Let's not. That's what, that is No Labels, you see. That is the same thing that this Justice Department is doing. They will love Joe Manchin. And I gotta tell you something, if he gets out there, this 501c4, people, they don't understand how dangerous that is. There's no way to even know where the money comes from. I mean, it's just dark, dark money. And it was made possible by Citizens United, of course. And so he, what is it, they raised 20, No Labels raised $20 million in the last year. It's just a lot of money. They're becoming a real entity. And now this might be the first face of a presidential run.

And right now there is a lot of hunger in this country for a third party candidate.

Oh, definitely.

We see that in the polls. And so if people don't know what No Labels is, obviously the name sounds attractive.