Joe Manchin, who has feuded with Joe Biden pretty much from the start of the president’s administration, has begun publicly campaigning against the $400 billion Inflation Reduction Act — a critical piece of Biden’s efforts to reduce global warming.
when asked by journalists whether he, too, was thinking of joining her as an independent.
From the get-go, Manchin has been a thorn in the side of the Biden administration.
That a man of Manchin’s unsavory politics has such staying power within the Democratic Party speaks to a slew of weaknesses within that party: In worrying that candidates like Wisconsin’swere too progressive for local voters, and in thus not adequately supporting their candidacies, Democrats ensured that they would lose eminently winnable Senate seats in 2022.
Manchin likely won’t run for president — not because he has any love for Biden, but because he has infinite love for Manchin, and a third-party run for the presidency would likely be political suicide. But that doesn’t mean he won’t dangle this threat for as long as he can in order to bend the party to his political priorities.
The longer the debt ceiling crisis continues, the more Biden needs to be able to rely on a unified Democratic Party to stand up to GOP hostage-taking strategies. And in such a situation, Joe Manchin seems set on extracting an ever-higher price for his continued, and begrudging, affiliation with a party whose leaders and whose values he claims to be so out of step with.
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