2. I think a lot of Manchin's behavior is more performative than ideological. He has a lot of voters who aren't Dems & don't like the Dems, so he needs to have very visible public spats with Dems. But he rarely abandons Dems on decisive votes.
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3. Look at this recent actions. If scuttling Neera Tanden's nomination was the price to pay for a vote for $1.9 trillion stimulus, I'm not going to shed any tears. The trimming of UI top up by 3 weeks was bad, but pales against one of the biggest stimulus in history.
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4. There's also the minimum wage, but he was hardly alone in voting against it. And the minimum wage can be brought up again after filibuster reform. $15 is a lift but Biden might get $12 tied to inflation, which would lift up many working poor.
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5. I say let Manchin have a few small victories if that gives him cover to vote for big Democratic bills.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/manchin-stimulus-democrats-biden/ …
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Jeet, I am absolutely begging you to learn anything about West Virginia so you will stop describing it as a "very red state"
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It went 68-69 percent to Trump in both 2016 and 2020.
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His Republican governor is to the left of him on COVID relief though.
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It's called The Manchin Cycle.
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Not for much longer, I am certain.
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