Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) is considering reregistering as a Democrat and running for the party’s presidential nomination, after President Joe Biden announced he would end his reelection campaign on Sunday.
Manchin had previously weighed a third party presidential run, but is now considering a run for the Democratic nomination, a source familiar with Manchin’s thinking confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
The West Virginia senator, who registered as an independent earlier this year after previously being a registered Democrat, called on Biden to “pass the torch to the new generation” on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday prior to Biden’s announcement that he would drop his campaign.
When asked on State of the Union about how Biden would “pass the torch,” Manchin said on the network it should be an “open process.”
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