Manchin Unloads On Democrats In Highlighting Problems With America Under Biden’s Leadership | Eastern North Carolina Now

    It's good for the environment, but it's also very, very necessary for us to have the fossil energy...

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: ... using it better and cleaner than anywhere in the world to have the security we need. That's what we need to do. And that's what they've been avoiding.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: You have to have permitting. If not, all this is going to be voided.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about what appears to be some separation between you and the president.

    You were quoted a few days ago as saying: "We're just in different ball games. We're not even in the same ballpark on many things."

    Are you going to endorse Joe Biden if he runs for reelection?

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: Oh, there's plenty of time for the election. This is the problem with America right now. We start an election every time there's a cycle coming up.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes, he's the leader of your party.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: I - I - no, the bottom line is, let's see who's involved. Let's wait until we see who all the players are. Let's just wait until it all comes out.

    My main purpose right now is to work for my country and my - and my state. That's my responsibility. I'm not going to make my announcement for anything until the end of the year. I'm not going to make a decision what my political position is going to be or where I'm going to do for my political future.

    I won't do it until the end of the year. I got too much work to do now.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Your political future, you mean the question of whether you personally are going to run for reelection in the Senate in West Virginia.

    Your Republican governor, Jim Justice, says he's going to run for your seat, or he thinks he's got a good shot at it. Why haven't you made up your mind?

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: There's too - the bottom line, I got plenty of time to make up my mind. The election is not until November 2024. We don't even file until January of 2024.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: And to be running and basically - not basically looking at the problems you have, we've got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.


    You're telling me we're in the same ball game or the same ballpark? I don't think so.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: You said let's see who all the players are when it comes to running for president.

    You've said you're not running for president. Is that an open question, though? Who - who do you think...

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: I didn't say that. I didn't say anything about that.

    I - the bottom line is, I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: To run for president?

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: I'm not taking anything off the table, and I'm not put - and I'm not putting anything on the table.

    I said I will make a decision in January - at this - at the end of this year.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: You'll make a decision at the end of this year as to...

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: Simply that.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: ... as to who you will endorse for president?

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: What my political future will be, what...

    MARGARET BRENNAN: No, but for president.

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: What I will be involved with, how I will be involved.

    I will be making - any decisions I make politically will not be done until the end of the year. I'm focused on fixing what's wrong with Washington. And the politics are so toxic, the more you talk about this party, that party, what candidate and this candidate.

    Look at what you have facing you right now. You've got inflation. You've got, basically, energy. You've got these unsecured borders. You've got geopolitical unrest. And we're talking about everything but that.

    MARGARET BRENNAN: We are - we have a lot to talk about.


    And, Senator Manchin, you're welcome back.

    (LAUGHTER)

    MARGARET BRENNAN: We got to leave it there, because...

    SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: I'm happy to come back, Margaret, any time.

poll#168

In the most recent Midterms Election, the "Republican Red Wave" turned out to be a "Republican Red Ripple," which, as in all elections, confounded the political prognosticators of what to expect down the governing /political road: What, and who, do you think is best for this meandering Representative Republic in the near future?

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Considering what has happened to our Representative Republic since the corruptive orthodoxy that led to the tolerated abomination - The Russia Hoax - where felonies were perpetrated upon the American People by the creation of the Two Tiered Justice System, in the misnomer of "Social Justice:" Where do you stand on sustaining our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in a society where injustice is chronically sanctioned by one political orthodoxy?

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