“As Sen. Joe Manchin struggled for several months over the next step he would take politically, President Joe Biden’s top advisers privately tried to persuade him to run for another term in the Senate,” Politico reports.
“Multiple West Wing aides, including senior counselor Steve Ricchetti, and some outside Biden allies talked with the West Virginia Democrat… Their pitch to Manchin was that, while a reelection bid in a deep-red state would be difficult, he had a path to victory.
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