Thursday on FNC’s “Particular Report,” outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) addressed hypothesis he would search the White Home as a third-party candidate in 2024.
The West Virginia Democrat gave low marks to the 2 events’ frontrunners, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
He advised FNC host Bret Baier he had little confidence in both and warned of penalties if Trump have been to win a second time period.
“Properly, to start with, we don’t know on Tremendous Tuesday who the 2 candidates could also be on the Democrat and Republican aspect,” Manchin stated. “However proper now, I assume all odds are they are going to be Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And I’m as trustworthy as I might be with you, Bret. I imagine that Donald Trump being elected once more would destroy democracy as we all know it. I — I’m involved. I’m very scared as a result of he’s already stated what he would do. He’s going to make use of the facility of the workplace for revenge. He’s going to principally — he doesn’t imagine that — the one election — what he believes is, the one truthful election is the one he received. And he doesn’t imagine within the rule of regulation, to the place the regulation solely pertains to everyone however him.”
“It’s a horrible state of affairs,” he continued. “And I simply — I’m terrified of that. That will destroy our nation as I do know it. And Joe Biden isn’t the particular person when he got here there saying, I understand how it really works, I can deliver the nation collectively, I’m a centrist. Properly, he’s pulled clear far to the left. So, let’s see what occurs. Will anyone change? I don’t know. Will the rhetoric change? But when we don’t mobilize the reasonable, wise, what — we’re going to name them the unconventional center, OK, the unconventional center. These are people who make commonsense choices, that run their life, that run their household, that run their companies, from the center-left, center-right, not from the extremes.”
“And that’s what’s occurred,” he added. “And the enterprise in Washington is simply too darn good. The Republican enterprise and the Democrat enterprise is fairly darn good right here. And so they’re not going to alter their mannequin. So, except we push it, it’s not going to — nothing will change.”