Don't Worry About Joe Manchin | The New Republic
Don’t Worry About Joe Manchin The West Virginia senator was cozy with Trump for political reasons. But he’s less of an obstacle to an ambitious agenda than an organized gang of Senate moderates. Pool/Getty Images There is now a new most powerful person in the United States: Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. With the Senate evenly split, Manchin, a Democrat representing a state in which nearly 70 percent of the votes cast in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections went to Donald Trump, has the power to break a tied vote on almost any legislative business requiring a simple major...
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