[Hoot Gibson]

If Joe Manchin capitulates to the liberal Democrats and race hustlers on this issue, then he will probably be finished in politics at a national level. Donald Trump received 69 percent of West Virginians vote in the 2016 and 2020 elections and they did not send Manchin to Washington to dance to Chuck Schumer's music. 

Joe Manchin is a bona fide centrist. Deal with it

Joe Manchin is a bona fide centrist, a political animal nearing extinction in the Democratic Party, whose home state of West Virginia gave Donald Trump his second-highest winning percentage last fall, with 69 percent of the vote.

Manchin is a traditional Democrat, not a bomb thrower. He seeks out compromise to move the country forward and, unlike many of his fellow Democrats, uses reason and rationality to argue for his positions on issues, not race or moral shaming.

His views are probably closer to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton than the progressive wing of today’s Democratic Party, which, in this political climate, would probably not have nominated either one of them for the presidency.