West Virginia’s Democratic governor and Senate candidate Joe Manchin attended a $1,000 to $5,000 a head fundraiser in Washington, D.C. today and apparently* slipped out the back door without taking questions from the press.

Why is Manchin in Washington 12 days before the election? “He has to have money,” West Virginia’s senior Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller told Politico‘s Simmi Aujla as he left the event. Manchin doesn’t have foreign money or money from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Rockefeller continued. So who ponied up at today’s D.C. fundraiser for Manchin? 

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