Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) says he couldn’t “stomach” what he calls “the socialist trend that’s going on” in the Democratic Party, explaining why he left the party last year to become an independent shortly before retiring from the Senate.
Manchin made his comments during a Fox News interview when asked to comment on the large crowds that prominent liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have attracted during a nationwide tour and the rise of New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.
“It’s not the Democratic Party that I knew or that I was a part of for many, many years,” Manchin said.
“This socialist trend that’s going on is something that I couldn’t stomach anymore, and it’s why I left. And if the national Democratic Party doesn’t get back to more of a center or center left, there won’t be a party they’re going to recognize at all,” he warned.
Manchin suggested Democratic leaders pull their party to the center and leave their most progressive members, such as Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, to form a new progressive party.
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