Senator Joe Manchin
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Then it went further after that too.
So with that being said, then you would go right in from there.
And then we have Trump.
We didn't know what to expect, but we were thinking, here's a businessman.
Always told us how successful and things of this.
We were expecting some things.
And I met with him from day one in 2016.
and talked to him.
And then I met with him 2017, 2018.
And there's a cute thing in the book there when you go through my book about, he said he wasn't going to campaign against me in 2018.
He liked me.
I'm his friend.
Well, he ended up coming six times to my state and they spent an extra 25 million trying to beat me.
And then afterwards, he calls me one week later, come have lunch with me.
And I'll walk in.
He said, I told you we couldn't beat him.
I'm thinking, well, Jesus, what the hell am I going to say?
Well, one for lack of trying.
He says, oh, Joe, you know, I didn't want to beat you.
I says, I knew you weren't serious, Mr. President.