Joe Manchin
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Podcast Appearances
First, as far as in Congress, would be term limits.
10, 15 years ago, I would have never been supportive of term limits, okay?
And I was at a...
At a rally one time, I was governor.
I had a big town hall rally.
A little lady got in the back.
She says, boy, Joe, we wish you were for term limits.
And I said, her name was Susie.
I said, Susie, I understand where you're coming from.
I said, but you're going to lose a lot of the institutional knowledge you have and the power and all these good people.
She said, think of this, Joe.
If we had term limits, maybe we'd get one good, courageous candidate.
term out of you.
Maybe you'd be willing to do the right thing.
At least one good term from you.
She sold me.
I didn't have any argument back.
I said, fine.
And I've been for it ever since.
And open primaries, and I'll give you an example of open primaries.