It appears Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia is the new No. 1 target for Democrats after his vote to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general last night:
.@Sen_JoeManchin is the one Democrat to vote yes on #Sessions so far. You know what this means. We will vote NO on Manchin.
— Women's March (@womensmarch) February 9, 2017
He’s a “traitor,” you see:
Somebody edited Joe Manchin's Wikipedia. This is some first rate trolling and maybe it's just the bitterness speaking, but I approve. pic.twitter.com/YP0X9GzEdG
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) February 9, 2017
Our reaction to that? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
A lot of people in my mentions right now are liberals who want to primary Joe Manchin. I get the feeling they are not familiar with WV.
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 9, 2017
No, they’re not. This would be a guaranteed pickup for the GOP:
"Please primary Joe Manchin!"
–This message brought to you by the National Republican Senatorial Committee https://t.co/J0cP6IBsOr
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 9, 2017
West Virginia is R+15. Trump got 68%(!!) of the vote there.
So a tad skeptical that angry tweets from MidTown are going to faze Sen Manchin
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) February 9, 2017
Primarying Joe Manchin 1) would be futile since no democrat could beat him, 2) if they did they'd then lose to a Republican by 40 points
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) February 9, 2017
As for Sally Kohn, she’s ready to move to West Virginia for the cause!
Extremely tempted throw my family in the car, move to West Virginia and spend the next 23 months doing everything possible to unseat Manchin
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) February 9, 2017
Our reaction to that? Sounds great! Does she need any help packing?
@sallykohn You should.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 9, 2017
@sallykohn When do you leave? I ask because you live in New York. And New Yorkers say things like this a lot but never actually do them.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 9, 2017
We’ll wait.
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