Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) told NBC's Chuck Todd on 'Meet The Press' on Sunday that President Joe Biden is being pushed further to the left, during an interview. "He’s been pushed to the far-left," Manchin said, adding, "And that far-left is not, basically, where the country is."
According to Fox News, Manchin stressed a centrist view to Todd, "And the far-right is not where the country is. Coming back to the middle, then we can continue to bring people to the middle and do our job." The West Virginia Democrat found himself in an awkward position over the Biden presidency, diametrically opposed within the party to both the radical-leftist, identitarian-dominated politics of 'The Squad' led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the establishment they co-opted led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
In response, where his colleague Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) left the party, Manchin has leaned toward centrist groups such as 'No Labels,' which Todd asked him about.
The senator replied, "What the movement of No Labels has done, which I think has been admirable, is saying there is a middle."
He explained, "There’s more people in the silent majority of the middle that have no voice whatsoever, so they’re forced to their respective corners, far-left and far-right. They’re not comfortable there. They’re showing that now there’s a place in the middle. And if the middle can show, ‘You can’t go to the left, you’re not going to get elected and you’re not going to govern from there, decisions are made from the middle.’"
He told the NBC host that the debt deal should apply the same principles: "Don’t you think that we should have a risk evaluation of where we are as a country on finances?"
"Stay in that middle and pull people back to the middle," Manchin said though he did vote in favor of the deal after lobbying for the inclusion of the 303-mile long Mountain Valley Pipeline carrying Natural Gas from West Virginia to Virginia, as previously reported by DC Enquirer.
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"When you have to fight your own colleagues to try to do your job, it makes it pretty tough." pic.twitter.com/hWKTu19JJr
Manchin told Todd later in the interview that working in Congress isn't "the most honorable profession," and lamented "When you have to fight your own colleagues to try to do your job, it makes it pretty tough."
Manchin is being challenged for his Senate seat by popular Republican Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia and May polling showed the Governor with an authoritative 22-point lead over him among registered voters.
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