Joe Manchin
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I can't go home and explain what we're doing as far as the Democratic Party.
So people that are still Democrats in my state, I just says, you better make sure they understand you're an independent West Virginia Democrat.
Because if you get tagged as a Washington Democrat, you're underwater 15, 20 points before you start.
Well, I try to be as nice as I can.
I try to be as truthful as I can because in some states, some blue and really blue areas, they still can survive and still have a strong, you know, New York City and different places like that may be still strong.
But I can tell you, if you want to know why you'll never be in the majority again, because you're losing most of the working rural areas.
And that is what has happened.
Come on, tell us the truth.
Yes, it is.
She's on the low end of the spectrum right there.
Yeah.
Those of us who've been in these tough races before, when you're facing something, you know what's going to turn you into a different animal than you're not.
I know you, and I know Tina.
That's not who we are, I don't think.
But we'd have had to turn into another animal if we wanted to go on.
I've never faced an election where I thought the other side was the enemy.
I learned from every election I was in, the debate,
And after the election was over, I won most of them.
So I'd call the person.
I said, you know, you had some good ideas in that debate.