Manchin ‘Not Ruling Anything Out’ on Third-Party Presidential Run

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says he’s “not ruling anything out” about potentially making a third-party bid for the White House in 2024.
Manchin was asked during an appearance on Fox News Sunday whether such a bid was “in the realm of possibilities.”
“[I’m] not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out,” Manchin replied ambiguously.
Manchin, who markets himself as one of the Senate’s most centrist members and describes himself as a “conservative Democrat,” suggested that any such run would be a reaction to the rise of both the “far-left” and “far-right” over recent years.
“You better have Plan B because if Plan A shows that we’re going to the far reaches of both sides, the far left and the far right, and that people don’t want to go to the far left and the far right, they want to be governed from the middle,” Manchin said. “I think … that you better have that Plan B available and ready to go.”…}