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laura: good evening, i m laura ingraham on the ingraham angle. joe manchin announced he would not seek reelection in west virginia. joe manchin saw the writing on the wall, he was going to lose and lose big. i made one of the toughest decisions of my life, i will not run for reelection in the united states senate. i will be traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is interest in creating movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. laura: the truth is, over time, voters saw through joe manchin s mask. he couldn t play good old boy in virginia and buddy up to schumer in d.c. democrats had grown tired of him. he has not been a reliable ally to the white house or democrats, i don t know if they shift strategy that we real democrats can play. he s been more reliable than a republican would be, though. better than to not have the seat at all. that is money that can go elsewhere. laura: joe manchin s exit is a huge problem for de ....
Overshadowed if you will by the defeats of late. the mr. president try to make the case, that there are some things coming your way that should help. right, right. i think there s going to be provisions. he ll continue to talk about the bipartisan infrastructure law, you know. we re having that event or he s holding that event at the white house to tout the new bridges that are coming under that law, and you ve also seep him kind of up his rhetoric about the benefits and how the benefits of the $1ment 1 trillion coronavirus repef package, particularly as it relates to schools and pointing out that it was democrats on a party line basis that delivered this relief, that helped get your schools back own, and i think you ll start to see a little bit more of a combative president biden in this mid-term year that you re already starting to see. it s not completely within his nature to be really confrontational in perhaps the way that members of the progressive base want, but you re going ....
Joe, right, joe manchin, of the senate, who has control of that budget in his hands. and obviously with the 50/50 senate, any senator can have that power. but he has been the one that s most willing to use that leverage partly because of his unique electoral position back in west virginia. we have also seen senator sinema from arizona express some concerns about that. and this is core to joe biden s promise. even if they get that bipartisan infrastructure bill passed with the help of republicans, this is the priority for the base. these are the set of things that they want. it s also a smaller package from even than what many in the base want. so, for joe biden, this is going to come down to can he keep the party together, number one, to pass this? but, at the same time, can he keep those factions feeling optimistic? the core macro problem for democrats right now is that they are the republicans are favored when we look back into midterms. usually we see a backlash against the presid ....
Janesville and kenosha, it wasn t. what they ended up doing was doing a bankruptcy that was a managed bankruptcy, which is essentially what mitt romney called for in the first place. we would have been better off and saved the taxpayers more money had they done it early on and might have saved plants like gm if they had done it early on. you think the auto bailout was not effective for wisconsin, for ohio, for other neighboring states there? it wasn t for wisconsin, if you looked at guys who works at chrysler in kenosha, they don t i think it s effective because they re not working today. we need more prosperity. he talked prosparity. those are the things independent voters and the base want in wisconsin. i hear you on the general issues. it s surprising to hear you run down the american auto industry in a moment it has come back. to see such a bright spot in the ....