Is Joe Manchin a DINO?

[Geoffrey Howe]

From what I can tell, except for climate change, he believes what the Democrats did about five years ago.

Why else would he be elected as a Democrat? It’d be much easier to be elected in West Virginia as a Republican (look what the Governor did).

[Geoffrey Howe]

His true problem is that he's corrupt. For example, his recent vote against the $15 minimum wage was not because his constituents were opposed to it (in fact, 63% of West Virginians support this measure), but because he received donations from the restaurant lobby to oppose it.

Oh I see, one can only be opposed to increasing the minimum wage if paid to oppose it. It's just impossible to have good-faith criticisms of it.