Joe Manchin & Daughter’s New $100M Project Should Raise Eyebrows

Politics is the Manchin family business, and it looks like the West Virginia senator has a new product to sell. He and his daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, have begun pitching donors on a “coalition that would ‘mobilize the middle’ and support a shift toward the political center” called Americans Together. The father-daughter duo is reportedly seeking at least $100 million in funding.

Manchin is one of the likelier elected officials to make a third-party run in 2024 and has headlined events hosted by No Labels, the organization aiming to secure ballot access for such a campaign should Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off once again in a rematch of the 2020 presidential election. Though this particular project is not associated with No Labels and not directly connected to a potential independent bid, WSJ reported, Manchin has previously signaled his interest in leaving the Democratic Party, saying on a West Virginia radio program earlier this month that he “can’t accept either party right now.”

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Politics is the Manchin family business, and it looks like the West Virginia senator has a new product to sell. He and his daughter, Heather Manchin Bresch, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, have begun pitching donors on a “coalition that would ‘mobilize the middle’ and support a shift toward the political center” called Americans Together. The father-daughter duo is reportedly seeking at least $100 million in funding.

Manchin is one of the likelier elected officials to make a third-party run in 2024 and has headlined events hosted by No Labels, the organization aiming to secure ballot access for such a campaign should Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off once again in a rematch of the 2020 presidential election. Though this particular project is not associated with No Labels and not directly connected to a potential independent bid, WSJ reported, Manchin has previously signaled his interest in leaving the Democratic Party, saying on a West Virginia radio program earlier this month that he “can’t accept either party right now.”