Manchin won't endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: 'Shame on her' [View all]

Source: CNN


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Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin.

The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay tactic in the Senate, told CNN on Tuesday that he wouldn’t back her candidacy now — despite signaling earlier this month he was getting ready to do so.


“Shame on her,” Manchin, who is retiring at year’s end, said in the Capitol. “She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It’s the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids.”

Now that Harris has vowed to gut the filibuster on this issue, Manchin said he wouldn’t back her for president. “That ain’t going to happen,” he said. “I think that basically can destroy our country, and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person’s ideology. … I think it’s the most horrible thing.”



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/politics/joe-manchin-not-endorse-harris-filibuster/index.html

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SHAME ON HIM!

he was already on my SH list for many reasons, including recently endorsing Hogan over Alsobrooks for Senate in MD when he cd at least have just kept his trap shut

Since he's not himself running for office, why does he have to go out of his way to try to hurt the Democratic Party?