{"id":15672,"date":"2024-02-17T00:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/joe-manchin-will-not-launch-third-party-presidential-run\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:23","slug":"joe-manchin-will-not-launch-third-party-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/joe-manchin-will-not-launch-third-party-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manchin will not launch third-party presidential run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Friday that he will not be running for president, shooting down months of speculation that he would join the race on a third-party ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I will not be seeking a third-party run, I will not be involved in a presidential run,\u2019 Manchin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Manchin made the announcement during a speech at West Virginia University as part of his \u2018listening tour\u2019 that kicked off last month with his daughter\u2019s campaign group \u2018Americans Together\u2019 \u2014 a movement that touts itself as the \u2018moderate majority\u2019 that rejects the \u2018extremism in politics.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m working with my daughter, working with people that we have around Americans Together and putting all my efforts toward that,\u2019 he said Friday.<\/p>\n

Manchin previously said he would not make a decision on whether he would run until after Super Tuesday on March 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018People are looking for options,\u2019 Manchin said at the time. \u2018And we\u2019re going to be looking at that, too.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Manchin said in a hypothetical run he would tap Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, or former Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman to be his vice presidential running mate, but later added he\u2019s not \u2018running for anything.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Hypothetically, if I was picking my running mate, really who I would ask right now is Mitt Romney,\u2019 Manchin told voters at the City Club of Cleveland breakfast forum Thursday.<\/p>\n

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who ran for the White House in 2008 and 2012, jokingly called Manchin\u2019s remarks \u2018presumptuous.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I would be the president. He would be my running mate,\u2019 Romney said in a statement to Deseret News when asked about Manchin\u2019s comment.<\/p>\n

Romney also announced last year that he would not seek re-election to the Senate when his term expires in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018No, I\u2019m not going to run for president,\u2019 he added. \u2018Certainly I\u2019m not running for vice president. But (Manchin is) kind to say that. We\u2019re good friends.\u2019<\/p>\n

No Labels, the third-party effort that is on the ballot in several states and was rumored to be considering placing Manchin on a presidential ticket, said it is considering other potential candidates for a \u2018unity ticket.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018No Labels has spent 14 years working to create a movement for America\u2019s commonsense majority and we welcome Senator Manchin\u2019s efforts to strengthen it,\u2019 No Labels co-chairs former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

\u2018No Labels is currently speaking with several exceptional leaders about serving on the presidential Unity ticket. We are continuing to make great progress on our ballot access efforts and will announce in the coming weeks whether we will offer our line to a Unity ticket.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Aubrie Spady and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Friday that he will not be running for president, shooting down months of speculation that he would join the race on a third-party ticket.\u00a0 \u2018I will not be seeking a third-party run, I will not be involved in a presidential run,\u2019 Manchin said.\u00a0 Manchin made the announcement during a speech <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15672","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\/15672","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=15672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}