• @Ensign_Crab
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    1 year ago

    It’s gonna be great watching centrist Democrats find an excuse to blame progressives when the person who represents centrists perfectly hands the Senate to Mitch McConnell.

    • @Telodzrum
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      111 year ago

      The country is going to hand McConnell the Senate. The 2024 map is so bad that Biden could win by 9 points nationally and still end up with a GOP Senate.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        01 year ago

        Assuming Manchin doesn’t do so first by switching parties.

        • HobbitFoot
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          31 year ago

          It depends on who he is caucusing with in 2024.

          Republicans may not give Manchin the seniority that Democrats give him if he switches caucuses.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            01 year ago

            It depends on who he is caucusing with in 2024.

            Depends on the issue, I suppose. If it’s progressive policy, he’ll continue to caucus with Republicans. And centrists will continue to support him, it seems.

            • HobbitFoot
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              21 year ago

              That isn’t what caucusing is.

              What I’m talking about is who decides the majority leader and the majority party. Right now, even though Manchin doesn’t always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate.

              This isn’t something you flip easily.

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                Right now, even though Manchin doesn’t always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate.

                We’ll see if he continues to do so.

                I don’t want to hear any whining from centrists if he does change parties. Progressives told you who he was.

        • @Telodzrum
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          01 year ago

          That’s just a 50-50 with VP Harris breaking ties again (it’s really 48+1+1 vs 50 because of Sanders and Sinema, but that’s only a little important).

      • @scottywh
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        -11 year ago

        McConnell won’t fucking be around in a year… are you joking?

        • @Telodzrum
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          01 year ago

          New to American politics this year? He’ll be there a decade from now.

          • @scottywh
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            11 year ago

            The man isn’t in good shape. I really don’t think he’ll be alive by end of next year.