Manchin: Trump Elected Again ‘Would
Destroy Democracy as We Know It’
Breitbart Politics,
by
Jeff Poor
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/17/2023 12:09:22 PM
Thursday on FNC’s “Special Report,” outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) addressed speculation he would seek the White House as a third-party candidate in 2024.
The West Virginia Democrat gave low marks to the two parties’ frontrunners, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.He told FNC host Bret Baier he had little confidence in either and warned of consequences if Trump were to win a second term. “Well, first of all, we don’t know on Super Tuesday who the two candidates may be on the Democrat and Republican side,” Manchin said. “But right now, I guess all odds are they will be Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
terrywhite 11/17/2023 12:13:16 PM (No. 1600294)
Manchin, don't bother running as a third party. You are too much of a dull-witted doofus.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 11/17/2023 12:23:43 PM (No. 1600298)
I only hope so. Discussed with gov by presidential fiat, disgusted by the steaming corruption in the swamp…looking forward to the reformation of the republic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 11/17/2023 12:25:44 PM (No. 1600299)
Democracy as you know it, ManChin, is a police state that arrests and harasses the opposition. Trump’s election would be a step towards restoring a traditional democracy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sw penn 11/17/2023 12:29:08 PM (No. 1600300)
I don't feel any particular compulsion to save a democracy
of fixed elections that keep the people impoverished
between the twin millstones of taxation and inflation.
Both government policies.
If the economists are right and there is depression in two months,
a lot of this fluff is going to be exposed for exactly what it is.
Criminal.
People on soup lines will not have a lot of indulgence for the status quo.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 11/17/2023 12:29:09 PM (No. 1600301)
Equine excrement. Joe, crawl back to your hollow.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DW626 11/17/2023 12:30:10 PM (No. 1600303)
Hey Moron…I mean manchin
We live in a republic, not a democracy….idiot!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DougTN 11/17/2023 12:35:53 PM (No. 1600304)
Oh no, another Joe. This one as scurrilous, but a lot more sentient.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Avikingman 11/17/2023 12:39:30 PM (No. 1600305)
Hey Joe, Most don't like the kind of rancid democracy YOU know. Scram.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Socio 11/17/2023 12:41:22 PM (No. 1600306)
Only because what people like him refer to as "democracy" is actually communist/Marxist dictatorial governance.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Namma 11/17/2023 12:54:31 PM (No. 1600315)
Ever notice how the Dems always call our form of government a democracy? So manchin must be mean that the Dems form of government Would be destroyed if PRESIDENT Trump is re-elected. Well then good!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 11/17/2023 1:10:00 PM (No. 1600320)
Democracy as we know it pretty well stinks. It does not even resemble the America we knew back when we were a great country, or America as founded. Manchin wouldn't know that. He was born into a wealthy, prominent family and knows only servants, chauffeurs, and security.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
moebellini3 11/17/2023 1:18:55 PM (No. 1600325)
For any sane person with a brain in their head. Look at the 4 years under PRESIDENT TRUMP and compare to the close to 3 years under Biden. You have to be a total illiterate, totally insane to think that we are better off today than during the Trump years. Joe Manchin is nothing but a weak spineless democrat. Pathetic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/17/2023 1:19:01 PM (No. 1600326)
Democracy as I knew it is gone. Trump would be a step in the right direction. Manchin a legend in his own mind.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kono 11/17/2023 1:21:35 PM (No. 1600331)
We are a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy. We will need to remind the world of this until the Left's dream of mob rule concealing a Commie core is definitively debunked. And renounced.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/17/2023 1:22:37 PM (No. 1600333)
Just another Dem spouting the Party line, fooling no one.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
philsner 11/17/2023 1:23:16 PM (No. 1600334)
These people are such parrots.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/17/2023 1:26:03 PM (No. 1600337)
Well... look whose licking his finger and shoving it into the wind. Planning to challenging old FBJ for the nomination or going out on your own ole Everyman Moderate Joe? This political hack has "Property of Wall Street" tattooed to his backside. The hubris of these people.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jayjeti 11/17/2023 1:31:33 PM (No. 1600342)
Manchin can't help but hammer death nails into his coffin by defying both Democrats and Republicans. Run Manchin Run!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/17/2023 1:34:27 PM (No. 1600346)
Where are we now, Lighting?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/17/2023 1:35:28 PM (No. 1600347)
Very easy to say harder to prove. Numerically or alphabetically, I don't care. List exactly what you fear, what you mean, how is Trump going to pull it off, and what exactly will it mean to America. A powerpoint presentation would work, something, not just "OMG, democracy as we know it will disappear". Dems says this all the time but never point to any specific action. And the idiots think that our democracy is working now. I am so sick of stupid.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 11/17/2023 1:37:35 PM (No. 1600348)
$5, Horse apples
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rochow 11/17/2023 1:38:22 PM (No. 1600349)
Manchin, you just ended your presidential run. One does get rather sick of this creep always blabbing out of both sides of his mouth.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
joew9 11/17/2023 1:39:58 PM (No. 1600350)
Democracy as I know it is Democrats cheating the vote in every election. I would love to see that destroyed. And while we are discussing democracy let's mention Jim Crow. It was Democrats that passed Jim Crow laws because blacks were voting for Republicans. But then when the Dems had bought enough of the black vote they were suddenly "horrified" at Jim Crow laws and insisted that they were repealed.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kate318 11/17/2023 1:42:46 PM (No. 1600355)
If “destroy[ing] democracy, as we know it” refers to how it’s been implemented under democrat rule, then yes. I agree with him.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/17/2023 1:59:53 PM (No. 1600362)
When Manchin was recently asked about how to solve the out of control borderline situation that has been caused by Biden’s “open borders” agenda that is designed to flood the USA with as many poor and uneducated Third World origin so-called migrants as possible, who under the current U.S. immigration laws that were constitutionally passed by Congress are considered as being illegal aliens,
Manchin said nothing about effectively enforcing those immigration laws whereby the vast majority of those migrants (illegal aliens) would be deported. Instead Manchin followed step two of the leftist and socialist Democrat immigration agenda by claiming that all illegal aliens permission to work in the USA so that they can support themselves. While step one of that agenda is to allow mass unlawful entry to the USA through Biden’s “open borders” by migrants (illegal aliens), with step three of that Democrat agenda is to grant the entire illegal alien population in the USA amnesty so that they can no longer be deported, and instead to put that entire foreign origin population on “a path to citizenship” with the ultimate objective of registering as much as possible of that population as new leftist and socialist Democrat supporters and future voters by the tens of millions or more.
Common sense will tell you if that Democrat immigration agenda remains on target that untold millions of Third World origin illegal aliens who fit within the so-called minority group categories of Democrat identity politics will continuously gain unlawful entry to the USA, that the out of control borderline will never be brought under control, and with the leftist and socialist Democrats in permanent political power in DC controlling both the Congress and the White House, no future U.S. immigration laws will ever be able to be effectively enforced.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
FormerDem 11/17/2023 2:36:50 PM (No. 1600379)
How about when the whole IC slanders him,then is that democracy as we know it? What about 91 trash accusations, Is democracy doing fine as we know it? What about deplatforming people who call for audits of logs that the law requires be maintained.... Is that democracy as we know it?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/17/2023 2:39:03 PM (No. 1600381)
Manchin is why there are extremists controlling the Democrat Party: If it has a "D" after the name, he's all for them. Only after a party-induced calamity, does he begin to consider there might be a problem. If it's an "R", after the name, he's against, and no idea will ever make him change. What an idiot!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
hershey 11/17/2023 2:46:56 PM (No. 1600391)
I certainly hope so, since, democracy as we currently know it, is more like a bannana republic under communism with our leaders with their hands in the honeypot up to their shoulders....and 'equal justice'...that is a big HA HA...if you're a republican or just happened to be near the Capital on Jan 6....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 11/17/2023 3:11:10 PM (No. 1600411)
***Destroy Democracy as We Know It"****
Can't you leftists (and Manchin IS a leftist no matter what some of you might think) come up with at least a different saying this? Every Democrat (and some Republicans) with access to a microphone, a keyboard, or a 'journalist's' ear puts it the same way.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Sully 11/17/2023 3:32:37 PM (No. 1600422)
Did we not SEE what happened to a duly elected POTUS? 3.5 years of media saturation on a false allegation, tech "fact checking" and hollyweird pummeling to politically assassinate President Donald Trump??? It happened.
Did you miss the part where the exiting potus initiates a mutiny of the POTUS elect's own Justice Dept? Or the part where the FBI submits lies in writing to a FISA judge to prosecute innocent citizens who happened to be in the administation's orbit???
And so it was Trump who threatened the country??? For having the nerve to get elected legitimately to the office of the President and surviving a beating that the world has not seen since Joseph Stalin a liquidated his generals??? Can no one say this to Manchin? Shut up.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
paral04 11/17/2023 3:38:02 PM (No. 1600424)
Manchin just lost any respect I might have had for him. Trump isn't the one that encouraged firing people who wouldn't take take Covid shot or questioned the safety of them. If he thinks those are the actions of a Democracy then maybe we would be better off with whatever Trump would install.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 11/17/2023 3:44:51 PM (No. 1600426)
Sorry Joe, but no one has ever been persecuted in such a manner as Donald J. Trump.
He was attacked during the campaign, during the transition and after he was inaugurated - hardly a peaceful transition of power when looking at it objectively.
Then, he was hounded throughout his presidential term up until the last day - he left peacefully and without any issue (sure he challenged the results with vigor).
What would Obama do if the circumstances were the same?
So, would he legally go after some of the people who have attacked him without any actual reason other than they don't want him around? Possibly if it was warranted. Remember, NO ONE is above the law.
Should he ensure the whole debacle is exposed and public? Probably to ensure it never happens again.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/17/2023 4:01:02 PM (No. 1600434)
The US government is not a democracy.
It is a Republic, as anyone who thinks about the words as they recite the the Pledge of Allegiance knows.
(A Democracy, direct voting, has been described as "two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for dinner".)
When Pelosi, Schumer, Manchin, or any of the 'Rats uses the phrase "Our Democracy" or "Democracy as we know it", they are referring to a One Party Totalitarian State, controlled by the 'Powers Behind the Green Curtain" of the Democ'RAT party. This includes working with Big Tech to censor and deplatform any dissenting voices, imprisoning Jan 6th protestors for years of Solitary Confinement with No Trial and No Charges brought against them, dawn FBI SWAT raids of nonviolent political opponents (with CNN tipped off and 'just happening to be across the street' when the raids are conducted), hostile IRS 'Audits' of political opponents, FBI and CIA investigations of the Congressmen who are overseeing the FBI and CIA, blatantly different '2-tiered' 'Just-Us' treatment of political friends compared to political opponents.... and that's just the short list!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
DVC 11/17/2023 4:53:01 PM (No. 1600459)
Sounds like great news the current "democracy" is a totalitarian crime syndicate with the FBI/KGB and DoJ as their strongarm enforcers.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/17/2023 5:15:33 PM (No. 1600477)
Psst....Joe, America isn't a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic, pal.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 11/17/2023 5:39:22 PM (No. 1600491)
Strange, I didn't feel my rights were threatened until my fascist Dem goobernor and fascist booger eating moron Dem mayor trashed the constitution and shut down and locked down the state cause of a virus. Strange how proliferative a two tiered Just-Us system has blossomed under a Fascist president. Strange how all of a sudden fascist DAs and 'Especially Biased' special counsels suddenly find legal woos for the leading Rebublican presidential candidate. All very strange since Trump had nothing to do with any of this. Oh, and who gives a rat's rear end about democracy. We had, until Dems took charge, a Constitutional Republic. We have never had a mob rule democracy.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/17/2023 6:39:28 PM (No. 1600508)
The country has long been over Manchin. Hopefully, W. Va. is over him.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
SALady 11/18/2023 12:38:21 AM (No. 1600642)
The USA is not a "democracy", and we have never been one. We are a Constitutional Republic!!!!! Anyone who has taken a semester of high school government knows that!!!
However, I have not seen a single Demon-Rat that seems to comprehend that basic knowledge about our nation!!! And that explains so much of why the Demon-Rats do so much of what they do to try to destroy this nation that some of us still love!!!!!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
mifla 11/18/2023 5:46:19 AM (No. 1600689)
If a man robs me, and I work to put him in jail, is that revenge or justice?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
skacmar 11/18/2023 7:51:10 AM (No. 1600731)
Democrats and media keeps saying that Trump will end democracy as we know it. They never say how. Is it ending democracy or ending the Democrats current bastardized version of it that is quickly speeding towards socialism and Marxism? Either way, ending democracy as Democrats know it isn't a bad thing.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
homefry 11/18/2023 8:12:39 AM (No. 1600751)
Democracy as dim-0s know it, SUCKS!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Muguy 11/18/2023 8:27:52 AM (No. 1600764)
I'm so sick of hearing these kinds of screeds that life as we know it will be destroyed IF "X" happens--
Every day the World as we know it is becoming RUINED.
John McPain got buried at the polls in 2008 and that was the beginning of The END.
There is no restoration of the unique American Culture that was then before the sexual perversions being paraded around, the unending spending of government ruining the economy and the purchasing power of the dollar, the brainwashing of the younger generation to EXPECT and accept Socialism, and the INVASION of a demographic of people who take away funds which were appropriated for American citizens.
Manchin got played and is corrupted.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
msjena 11/18/2023 8:46:43 AM (No. 1600769)
How does an election destroy democracy? Elections are the essence of democracy.
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