DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months agoJoe Manchin expected to skip Biden event as he weighs leaving Democratswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down18
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minus-squareHobbitFoot linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThat isn’t what caucusing is. What I’m talking about is who decides the majority leader and the majority party. Right now, even though Manchin doesn’t always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate. This isn’t something you flip easily.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-211 months ago Right now, even though Manchin doesn’t always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate. We’ll see if he continues to do so. I don’t want to hear any whining from centrists if he does change parties. Progressives told you who he was.
That isn’t what caucusing is.
What I’m talking about is who decides the majority leader and the majority party. Right now, even though Manchin doesn’t always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate.
This isn’t something you flip easily.
We’ll see if he continues to do so.
I don’t want to hear any whining from centrists if he does change parties. Progressives told you who he was.