“I had to laugh when you were playing the clip of him saying this was a difficult decision for him to make. It was not a difficult decision because if he had run, he would have lost. And he would have lost because the people of West Virginia would not have fallen again for the claim that he was such a moderate Democrat he would be an acceptable representative of them,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.
Hemingway: No, Manchin’s Decision Was Not ‘Difficult’ — West Virginians Were Going To Vote Him Out
