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« on: June 13, 2021, 12:00:21 AM »

No, not quite - that's former Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN). Manchin is fairly centre-left on guns (see the Manchin-Toomey bill and his statment that 'due process is what's killing us right now), and mixed on abortion (fine by me). On the other hand, he supports a wall on the southern border, something even some GOP members oppose (!!). He's liberalized somewhat on LGBT+ rights over time. On the environment, he's a Republican - his first bill in the Senate was to combat "overreach" from the EPA, and he supports the Keystone Pipeline. . He's basically a centrist on guns, abortion and LGBT+ rights ("culture war" issues that have his constituents riled up), but is a conservative on immigration and the environment. He's a liberal on....basically nothing. But that's not what a DINO is. Manchin fundamentally thinks like a liberal (on what, I don't know) - if he were a politically ambitious politician, he would have become a Republican for sheer political expedience (like Jim Justice). He'll probably lose reelection in 2024 if he runs as a Democrat. Yes, he's conservative on some issues, and a centrist on most others, but there are reasons (unknown to me) he's a Democrat, fundamental reasons - because if they weren't, he would have switched parties by the time Trump carried WV by 40% in 2016. I think he'd be best off as an Independent, personally.
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