{"id":15636,"date":"2024-02-16T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/joe-manchin-suggests-mitt-romney-rob-portman-as-potential-running-mates-as-he-flirts-with-third-party-ticket\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T00:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:55","slug":"joe-manchin-suggests-mitt-romney-rob-portman-as-potential-running-mates-as-he-flirts-with-third-party-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/joe-manchin-suggests-mitt-romney-rob-portman-as-potential-running-mates-as-he-flirts-with-third-party-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin suggests Mitt Romney, Rob Portman as potential running mates as he flirts with third-party ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he\u2019d pick Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, or former Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman as potential running mates in a hypothetical third-party presidential run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018Hypothetically, if I was picking my running mate\u2026 really, who I would ask right now is Mitt Romney,\u2019 Manchin said Thursday at the City Club of Cleveland breakfast forum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Maybe Rob Portman would be right there, too,\u2019 Manchin added. \u2018Rob is a dear friend of mine. What a good man, what a good man.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>City Club CEO Dan Moulthrop moderated the forum, which had roughly 150 people in attendance, and repeatedly probed Manchin on whether he would jump in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Guys, listen, I\u2019m not running for anything,\u2019 Manchin said. \u2018I\u2019m basically running to try to get people involved.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s comments come as he has been flirting with a third-party presidential bid in recent months, with his two-month \u2018listening tour\u2019 sparking even more speculation that he will throw his hat in the ring. Both Manchin and Romney announced last year they would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The West Virginia Democrat has positioned himself as a centrist politically compared to his more progressive colleagues in the Senate and has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with both President Biden and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin\u2019s daughter, Heather, started a nonprofit last summer called \u2018Americans Together,\u2019 aiming to unite the country\u2019s moderate voters away from the \u2018extremes\u2019 of the left and right. If Manchin does announce a presidential run, he\u2019ll likely use the nonprofit to bolster his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We stand against extremism in politics. It has taken over our political system and taken away our voice,\u2019 the Americans Together campaign website states. \u2018As proud Americans, we agree on more than we disagree. We demand that our politicians put country before party to get things done. Enough is enough.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has previously said he would decide after Super Tuesday \u2014 when multiple states hold their primary elections or caucuses simultaneously, making it a significant day for candidates to secure delegates \u2014 on March 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Super Tuesday pretty much confirms whatever is going to happen, what we believe will happen, and we\u2019ll see where we go from there,\u2019 Manchin told reporters on the day of the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Romney and Portman for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he\u2019d pick Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, or former Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman as potential running mates in a hypothetical third-party presidential run. \u2018Hypothetically, if I was picking my running mate\u2026 really, who I would ask right now is Mitt Romney,\u2019 Manchin said Thursday at the City Club of Cleveland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}