Joe Manchin slams ‘extreme abnormal’ partisan politics; doesn’t rule out third party bid

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin blasted America’s “excessive irregular” politics and accused each Democrats and Republicans of demonizing one another — whereas not ruling out a possible third party bid for president.

“Folks… are searching for frequent solutions. They wish to reside their lives in a extra regular environment. And this isn’t regular. That is so irregular — the political area that we’re in as we speak,” Manchin, a average Democrat, advised radio present host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable” Sunday.

“What’s scary is persons are beginning to consider it’s by no means going to alter. They’re beginning to settle for the intense irregular … [There’s] nothing regular about this by any means,” he stated.

The senator blamed fellow Democrats in addition to Republicans for fueling the poisonous environment that has alienated many citizens. 

“In the event you’re a Democrat, they anticipate you to villainize each Republican. And in the event you’re a Republican, it is best to villainize the Democrats,” Manchin stated.

“That’s not the best way our founding fathers supposed for this democracy to work,” he added. “It was supposed for us to work collectively.”

Manchin didn’t point out President Biden or former President Donald Trump by title.

However polling has confirmed that even a large number of Democrats choose that Biden, 80, not search re-election, whereas Trump, 77, faces four criminal indictments throughout his comeback bid for the White Home.

Manchin talked up the group No Labels, which has been pushing a possible “unity ticket” as a 3rd possibility within the 2024 presidential race.

“All they’re asking for is ‘Do the residents of america need another choices?’” he stated. 

Manchin has to this point refused to rule out a third-party bid, and lately co-headlined a No Labels occasion with former Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-Unbiased and the founding chairman of No Labels, agreed in his personal interview with Catsimatidis that there is “an excessive amount of hatred” in Washington.

“There’s all the time been variations of opinion,” Lieberman stated Sunday. “However as we speak, you simply don’t have a distinction of opinion and a debate on a difficulty on the ground in Congress. You deal with the opposite individual as in the event that they had been the member of an enemy nation.

“What motivates us isn’t that we wish to run a ticket,” he added. “However we hope that possibly the energy that we’re exhibiting can be a message to the 2 events to attempt to come again towards the middle and, to not change what they assume is true, however to start to work collectively for the great of the nation.”

Manchin stated No Labels needs to be ready to run a bipartisan third celebration tickets if the 2 main political events nominate candidates for president who’re unacceptable to a big swath of voters.

“No matter you see popping out of No Labels… it’s going to be a former Democrat, former Republican, in all probability on the prime of their ticket, exhibiting which you can carry this nation collectively by governing collectively — not by condemning the opposite aspect, which is what they do now,” he stated.

Billionaire businessman Ross Perot is the final candidate to run a critical third celebration bid for president within the Nineties. He died in 2019.