Senator Joe Manchin
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Him going down there and getting into a tiff with everybody he did.
And so all of a sudden, you know, we got two senators that are running from there.
And boom, the first one calls, Raphael Warnock.
He wins.
Ossoffs later on that night, boom, they called that.
And Schumer says, you know what this means, don't you?
And I said, well, Chuck, I think it means you're the majority leader.
He says, no, it means that you can probably have anything you want.
And I said, I just want my country to do well.
If my country does well, my state will do well.
That's all I care about.
What do you think he meant when he said that?
I know exactly what he meant, Schumann.
I know exactly Chuck Schumer basically coming from where he comes from.
It's just whatever you can take back home.
And, of course, Bob Byrd was always criticized for taking so much what they called pork back home.
And that was the situation.
He thought, well, I'm in a catbird seat now.
I could outdo Bob Byrd.
I just never thought that.