A day after calling the rumors “bulls**t,” West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin admitted he has considered leaving the Democrat Party.
He said he had talked about becoming an independent “if I’m an embarrassment to my Democrat colleagues, my caucus, the President being the leader of the Democratic Party.”
“I said, me being a moderate centrist Democrat, if that causes you a problem, let me know and I’d switch to be an independent. But I’d still be caucusing with Democrats,” he said. “That’s the only thing that was ever discussed. No one accepted that.”
