Joe Manchin: The Democratic Party Brand Is ‘Toxic,’ They ‘Have Tried to Mainstream the Extreme’

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House cannot move that one vote vacate.
>> Speaker every time, and the only way you can remain speaker here is do nothing, because you‘re going to make someone upset.
>> People like you in the Senate. I mean, is that what my colleagues would say?
>> Including some in your former party.
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>> Yourself a Democrat?
>> Form of what? What the Democratic Party has turned itself into the national brand? Absolutely not. And they know that they‘re all good people on both sides.
>> Is the reason for you said you‘re not a Democrat. What caused Joe Manchin to divorce himself from.
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>> Out how you lost somebody like me. I was born as a Democrat because of my grandfather‘s love of FDR. I was a very strong Democrat because of my family‘s love of John fitzgerald Kennedy. I came through the whole iteration, and then I was a Democrat in West Virginia, and it has always been a 75 to 80% plurality of Democrat registered Democrats. But there was a split. I was never in the liberal side of it. I was never in the establishment side. So I always had to fight my way through.
>> Is it a shift?
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>> Brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of. It‘s just it‘s toxic and the d brand is basically this. You know, I‘ve told them. I said, first of all, as an American and as a as someone in the Senate, and I‘m going to take the constitutional oath, the Constitution that I take very, very, very, very seriously, I‘m going to help every human being pursue the pursue the happiness life in their life, pursuit of happiness. I don‘t care who they are. I don‘t care what color. I don‘t care any of the things who they love and they do it. And that‘s you. And I‘m going to make sure you have that opportunity and right to live your life. Just don‘t make your life if it might be on the extremes or in the minority of few, make me believe that‘s the norm or make me and my family believe, or my children believe or this or that. No, I will protect you. Just don‘t try to mainstream it. And the Democratic Party, the Washington Democrats, have tried to mainstream the extreme.