Joe Manchin: Democrats were ‘wrong’ to sit for Trump’s speech

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday morning that Democrats were wrong to sit sullenly for most of President Trump’s State of the Union address, and said that mild protest showed a lack of respect to the presidency.

“I was very, very upset when I saw the Republicans never, ever stood up with Barack Obama, and there was things I didn’t agree about President Obama in his speech,” he said on MSNBC.

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