Conservative Democrat and Senator Joe Manchin is having a tough time.
Just vocally supporting the party he's from the Democratic Party and
he's been asked on multiple shows at this point whether he wants Democrats to win
in the midterms and whether he supports Joe Biden in his re election bid in 2024.
And I don't know why he's having a hard time answering that very simple question.
But apparently things got heated when Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC had that
question for him.
So let's take a look at how it all went down.
>> Would you support Joe Biden if he's on the ticket in 2024 as
the Democratic President seeking reelection.
>> Let me make it very, very clear, this is one of the most important pieces
of legislation in my lifetime that we've ever done to have energy security to
fight inflation to help our geopolitical and that's exactly I'm working with it.
I'm very appreciative they are.
But for me to bring the politics into it,
this is a Democrat bill, this is an anti Republican bill.
This is not, I'm not talking about the 2022 election and 2024.
I have no control over those elections and I'm not gonna talk about them that ask you
one of the greatest pieces of legislation and I'm very appreciative that
the president has seen it, he's approved it, he supports it.
God bless him for that.
This is great for America, can't we do something for
our country without having bring politics into it talked about Democratic.
>> I'm just asking you [CROSSTALK] >> Talking about I'm supporting this bill
Andrea it's the American bill, it's the red, white and blue American bill.
Every time you talk about politics it gets people fired up.
I'm not going to go down that path.
>> Who cares if he supports Biden in his re election bid?
I don't support Biden running for re election.
I think he should step aside and allow for
someone else to run for the Democratic ticket.
But like the thing that's annoying about Manchin is how
much the corporate democrats empower him to be the Debag that he is.
That's it, they empower, they love him as the convenient excuse for being unable to
get anything done because they don't actually want to get anything done.
I'm specifically talking about Corporate Democrats here.
Those who have been successfully bribed by our corporate overlords,
okay, they love Manchin and they will support Manchin no matter what,
Manchin could have said on live national television that he thinks
Joe Biden is the dumbest, most useless dementia riddled president
in US history and the Democrats would still be caressing his ass.
I guarantee it, I guarantee it.
>> Yes, sadly that's how undemocratic the Senate is just writ large.
But I love it, I love watching Manchin squirm
over real easy questions if you actually are a Democrat.
But when you're so loaded in Republican and
fossil fuel money when like you're definitely not running for
re election and when you want another yacht next to your yacht,
almost heaven that just called heaven and you want another Maserati.
That's how you respond.
You have no moral center, you don't have loyalty except to money.
And there you are, he's squirming.
He can't even lie and be like, yeah, yeah,
sure I docuz he knows his donors will be like, I don't know about this guy, right?
He can't even say whether, I mean, if you were like, if you ran for re election,
would you hope to win your seat?
I don't know, Andrea why you gotta like he doesn't care.
He's like, is there more money in it?
Is there less money in it?
It depends on the lobbying job I'm gonna get
>> No, but to that point Francesca,
he's gonna make money regardless of which party is in charge, okay?
In fact, it's actually more of an inconvenience for
Manchin if democrats as they do now hold the majority in the Senate and
in the House of Representatives because that means there's gonna
be tremendous pressure for him to go along with the Democrats agenda.
And the democrats agenda, especially when it comes to responding
to the climate emergency is not convenient for
man who's making half a million dollars a year from the coal industry.
>> When they roll out every red carpet for this guy,
there are like Manchin specific carve outs in every single
climate proposal just to get, it's like a line of like dog treats, what I mean,
when you like try to like lead someone it's a little Hansel and Gretel for
Manchin line and I just doesn't kind of make you smile thinking about Biden and
the rest of democrats watching him squirm like that.
Like we've been telling you, we've been there it is.
>> I don't know if they're upset at Manchins refusal to just answer
the simple question and say that he hopes, Biden wins or
the Democrats maintain their majority, I don't think they really care.
And the reason why they don't care again is because the top priority is we need
the bad guy, we need the hero, we need the person who's willing to be
the scapegoat for why we don't accomplish what we claimed we wanted to accomplish
when we were running our campaigns >> And he runs cover for
other people as well as we've talked about.
>> Exactly.
>> And if it's, if it's not him, it's Cinema,
if it's not Cinema it's the parliamentarian and
if it's not a parliamentarian, I don't know, I ate a bad lunch.
>> No, they'll, they'll find the convenient excuses and it's,
it's baked into the system with arbitrary nonsense,
like the legislative filibuster or the Senate parliamentarian.
And if it's not baked into the system.
It's, certainly part of a system that tends to empower and
lift up the most corrupt, bribed politicians imaginable and
Manchin is certainly one of them.
So.