WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said Friday that he is not running for president, according to his spokesperson Jon Kott. For months Manchin, a centrist Democrat, had been flirting with a campaign that threatened to complicate the 2024 presidential race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Manchin announced his decision in a speech at West Virginia University billed as “The Future of American Politics.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
He often bucked his party’s leadership and while considering a run for the presidency had said he thought it would be clear by March if there was a path for a third-party candidate this year.\u00a0… WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said Friday that he is not running for president,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/141712-west-virginia-senator-manchin-wont-seek-us-presidency-in-2024-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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