Manchin says he won't endorse Harris over abortion filibuster carveout
Outgoing West Virginia Independent Sen. Joe Manchin said Tuesday he won't back Vice President Kamala Harris' White House bid after she came out in favor of changing Senate rules to pass abortion protection laws.
"Shame on her," Manchin, who is retiring and left the Democratic Party earlier this year, told CNN. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together."
Outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., another retiring Democrat-turned-independent and filibuster defender, also panned the idea, saying it would open the door to further restrictions by a future Republican Senate majority.
Harris' comments come as she pivots to the center to win over undecided voters, but abortion remains a key issue that fires up the Democratic base and helped the vice president find her footing in office. She has been particularly vocal on the issue after reports of two Georgia women's deaths seemingly due to delayed treatment after undergoing medication abortions."
Why this matters:
Manchin, and Sinema, ole pb thinks, represent many of those moderate and independent common sense voters who will decide the election.
Dems continue to lie about Trump's position on abortion which, pb thinks it America's POLITICAL position.
pb's radically, viciously, pro-life personally but, politically he's all in on the Dobbs decision which makes regulating abortion an "of the people, by the people and for the people" thing. We are not, as Donna says a democracy, but we are a republic.
Polls suggest that the American populace supports restrictions on abortion after 13 to 15 weeks.
Ole pb says that Kammy just went too far! She's in favor of changing or suspending Senate rules to allow Big Brother to regulate abortion... and even moderate Dems oppose her on that. Imagine moderate and independent common sense?, oy freakin friggin EFFINvey!
pb thinks Kammy just pulled a boner... which may lose her, and us, the election.
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