“His whole appeal is a retail appeal every blueberry festival, huckleberry festival, Joe Manchin’s there,” former West Virginia political science professor Patrick Hickey told CNN. But even with those fundamentals, political experts said Manchin has had tremendous staying power through retail politics and argue he can deliver for the state while standing up to Biden. There is no denying that West Virginia is incredibly conservative the state went nearly 40 percentage points for Trump in the 2020 election. On Friday, Justice told Fox News that Manchin “would be a formidable opponent” if he runs for reelection, but added that he’s “done some things that have really alienated an awful lot of West Virginians.” Justice made little mention of Manchin during his official campaign launch but came out swinging against Biden and his agenda. Manchin: Americans want a 'reasonable, responsible middle' Joe Manchin speaks with CNN on Sunday, April 2. I don’t think he’s going to be easy to beat.” “This is going to be toughest fight, but I think anyone who thinks this is going to be a piece of cake is wrong.
“Justice is a likable candidate – he takes that ‘aw shucks’ thing to the next level,” Kilwein said. Alex Mooney, the governor is already backed by Senate Republicans’ electoral arm and many in the state think he will present a serious challenge to Manchin. And though Justice still must get through a primary against Republican Rep. The Democrat beat his Republican challenger by just three percentage points in 2018. “Make no mistake, I will win any race I enter,” he said in a statement. Manchin has been silent on whether he’ll run for reelection, but as Justice announced his candidacy, Manchin expressed confidence. Manchin’s appearance on Fox to slam Biden and threaten to repeal the law he had an outsized role in writing “is a pretty good indicator to me that he’s running,” said John Kilwein, chair of West Virginia University’s political science department. Since delivering President Joe Biden one of his biggest legislative wins with the IRA last summer, Manchin has spent the last few months on a rampage against the administration, homing in on what he calls its “radical climate agenda.” Manchin has voted against Biden’s nominees for high-ranking administration positions, bashed new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency and Treasury Department and clashed with members of the president’s cabinet at Senate hearings. But political experts from his home state see a man who is gearing up for a fight. Justice’s bid for the seat “doesn’t change anything at all,” Manchin told CNN. Jim Justice jumped into the race this week. If he decides to seek reelection in 2024, the 75-year-old senator will face his toughest political fight yet, as popular West Virginia Republican Gov. Manchin’s repeal threat “was probably good politics,” West Virginia University political science professor Sam Workman told CNN.
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The Hanwha QCells solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, in October 2022. Still, experts said he must be sensitive to the idea that he ushered in what ended up being the nation’s largest climate law, given he represents West Virginia – a state where coal and natural gas reign supreme. Even though Manchin carved out space for fossil fuels, the bill represents by far the biggest climate investment in US history.įrom the start, Manchin has insisted the IRA was an “energy security bill,” rather than a clean-energy bill. The IRA, passed and signed into law last year, was a sweeping $750 billion bill that lowered prescription drug costs, raised taxes on large corporations, and invested $370 billion into new tax credits for cleaner energy. The conservative Democratic senator reiterated this to CNN, saying he would “look for every opportunity to repeal my own bill” if the administration continued to use the IRA to steer the US quickly towards the clean energy transition and away from fossil fuels. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News on Monday to make a stunning threat: He could be persuaded to vote to repeal his own bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, if the Biden administration pushed him far enough. West Virginia political observers were not surprised when Sen.
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