Democrats risk forfeiting Senate majority with attacks on Manchin: Hume
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Progressives and Democrats who are lashing out at Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., run the risk of pushing him out of their party entirely and tilting the majority towards Republicans, according to Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume.
The West Virginia Democrat faced ire from members of his own party on Monday over an op-ed he wrote where he vowed to oppose the Democrats' sweeping elections bill and sided with his Republican colleagues over keeping the legislative filibuster in the Senate. Manchin's opposition to the "For the People Act" provoked outrage from progressive Democrats who hoped to push through an array of progressive legislation, including the elections bill, without the support of Senate Republicans. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y. publicly criticized Manchin on Twitter.More Related News