Manchin Touts His ‘Fiscally Responsible and Socially Compassionate’ Politics in Meeting with Iowa Business LeadersWest Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin touted his “fiscally responsible and socially compassionate” politics during a Wednesday meeting with Iowa business and community leaders.
Manchin’s remarks to the roughly 170 Greater Des Moines Partnership members sparked renewed suspicions about a potential third-party presidential run.the Iowans. “When people say what’s your politics? I say I’m fiscally responsible and socially compassionate, which I think most Americans are.”“Honest to God, my main concern: How do we save this nation? How do we bring people together to protect the quality of life, the values that we’ve had that we were raised with? That’s all,” ManchinAxios.
Earlier this month, Puck News reported that Manchin sounded like a candidate on a call with No Labels, a group hoping to build infrastructure to launch a bipartisan third-party presidential run.
“When you’re asking me what I’m going to do and what my political ambitions would be, it’s to make the country work together and be a United States and not the divided states,” Manchin