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Inside the West Virginian Movement to Push Joe Manchin to the Left
1 month ago | By The New Republic
This week, NBC News's national political reporter, Sahil Kapur, tweeted a bit of interesting color from the Hill: Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, passing West Virginia's Joe Manchin, greeted him with a “Your Highness” as he walked by. The title was deserved-Manchin, for all intents and purposes, is now running both the Senate and the Democratic legislative agenda. There are other Democratic members of the party's Senate caucus who will have to be wooed and won over in order to pass any of President Biden's big-ticket items during this Congress, including Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema and Maine's...
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