West Virginia Senator and Maserati owner Joe Manchin has announce that he will not be running for President in 2024:
Senator Joe Manchin has officially plucked his tentative cap out of the proverbial ring, announcing that he will not be running for president in an already chaotic election year.
“I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential run,” he finally said Friday, in a speech at West Virginia University. “I am not going to be a deal breaker, if you will, a spoiler.”
That’s exactly what everyone had been warning him about for the last year.
Manchin, a so-called conservative Democrat from West Virginia, had previously announced that he would not be seeking reelection in the Senate, instead spending months traveling across the country to see if he could be the one to “bring Americans together” as a third-party candidate. That is, despite his legacy as a consistently stubborn vote in a narrowly divided Senate.
Given that his preferred vehicle for this, "No Labels," is currently enmeshed in lawsuits claiming that it deceived donors, it was highly unlikely that he could even get on the ballot in most states, and this may have been a contributing factor
Another contributing factor be that someone showed him the opposition research file that they had accumulated on him, and even if nothing was technically illegal, it would likely make him deeply toxic.
In any case, Senator Joe Manchin, will you please go now! (Apologies to Theodor Seuss Geisel)
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