Former Sen. Joe Manchin said he left the Democratic Party last year because he couldn’t “stomach” what he said was “the socialist trend” in the Party. “It’s not the Democratic Party that I knew or that I was a part of for many, many years.”
The West Virginia senator specifically mentioned Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani—all socialists—as a reason why he is so negative.
He warned that “if the national Democratic Party doesn’t get back to more of a center or center left, there won’t be a party they’re going to recognize at all.”
