With all the absolute crap this guy is doing, it's time for him to have his own thread. So here it is.
First off, he decides NOT to support the voting rights act. He said on Fox News:
“I’m not supporting that because I think it would divide us further. I don’t want to be in a country that’s divided any further than [the one] I’m in right now.”
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But guess who puts him in his place? Chris Wallace of Fox News, of all people:
"You said you oppose scrapping the filibuster," Wallace noted. "The question I have is whether or not -- and you say that you hope that will bring the parties together -- the question I have is whether or not you're doing it exactly the wrong way?"
"Hear me out on this," the Fox News host continued. "If you were to keep the idea that maybe you would vote to kill the filibuster, wouldn't that give Republicans an incentive to actually negotiate because old Joe Manchin is out there and who knows what he's going to do? By taking it off the table, haven't you empowered Republicans to be obstructionists?"
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First off, he decides NOT to support the voting rights act. He said on Fox News:
“I’m not supporting that because I think it would divide us further. I don’t want to be in a country that’s divided any further than [the one] I’m in right now.”
Manchin declares opposition to voting rights bill
The West Virginia Democrat called S.1 “the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together.”
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But guess who puts him in his place? Chris Wallace of Fox News, of all people:
"You said you oppose scrapping the filibuster," Wallace noted. "The question I have is whether or not -- and you say that you hope that will bring the parties together -- the question I have is whether or not you're doing it exactly the wrong way?"
"Hear me out on this," the Fox News host continued. "If you were to keep the idea that maybe you would vote to kill the filibuster, wouldn't that give Republicans an incentive to actually negotiate because old Joe Manchin is out there and who knows what he's going to do? By taking it off the table, haven't you empowered Republicans to be obstructionists?"
'You're doing it exactly the wrong way': Chris Wallace shreds Joe Manchin for enabling GOP 'obstruction'
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday challenged Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is refusing to support filibuster reform to pass a voting rights bill and other progressive initiatives. "You said you oppose scrapping the filibuster," Wallace noted. "The question I have is whether or not -- and...
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