Commentary: Dissident Independent Senator Might Challenge Kamala Coronation, Fight Her for Nomination

The unprecedented transition was supposed to go smoothly—Murphy’s Law, however, may very well apply here: ‘What can go wrong will go wrong.’

This from westernjournal.com.

On Sunday afternoon—as good patriotic Americans were doing literally anything else but following political drama out of Washington—Joe Biden dropped the news that he was not going to be seeking a second term, after all.

A few hours later, he officially endorsed Kamala Harris, seemingly precluding an ugly convention fight.

Except the two biggest names in Leftist politics not named Harris and Biden—former President Barack Hussein Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—did not endorse Harris when they paid tribute to Biden’s decision to withdraw.

And We the People should probably assume this is part of the crime syndicate’s plan. Demonstrate dissention and foster a combative nature. They likely have someone in mind to replace Joe other than Kamala.

But then within hours of Dementia Joe’s announcement, the water became muddied further by the announcement by retiring independent Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia that he was considering rejoining the Democratic Party (communist/globalist crime syndicate) and challenging Kamala for the nomination.

The New York Times noted:

The retiring West Virginia stalwart was almost the first senator to call on Biden to step aside after the June 27 debate.

The independent, who left the Democrat Party in May over its leftward lurch, had to be persuaded not to appear on the Sunday morning political chat shows days later and step aside.

Manchin ended up formally calling on Biden to drop out just hours before he did on Sunday.

He told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union:

I came to the decision with a heavy heart that I think it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation.

Further:

I want him to be the president in the last five months of this presidency of his term, to do what he can do is unite our country, to calm down the rhetoric and be able to focus attention to peace in the world.

However, the quick shift to Harris was not exactly to his liking.

Tapper reported in a Sunday post on X:

Sources close to Sen Joe Manchin, Independent of WV, say he’s considering re-registering as a Democrat and throwing his hat into the ring.

Why would the senator do so? Well, for one, he told Tapper he was “very hopeful” that the nominee would be chosen via an “open process.”

Manchin told Tapper:

I think that we have a lot of talent on the bench, a lot of good people.

Further:

And I’m partial to governors, because a governor can’t afford to be partial. They can’t afford to be partisan strictly because that pothole or that bridge doesn’t have a D or an R on it.

He also had his preferences.

Manchin continued:

I’ve got two tremendous governors right next door to me, Andy Beshear in Kentucky and Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, who are operating with legislatures either evenly split or completely opposite their party affiliation.

They haven’t divided their state. They haven’t made you pick a side and demonize the other side.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

Shapiro has already endorsed Harris.

And:

Beshear hadn’t made it clear where he stands as of Sunday night, but the Kentucky governor is being mentioned in Harris’ veepstakes, should she become the nominee. Getting into the race for the nomination would torpedo those ambitions.

And so, while Manchin is not a governor, he is a moderate and someone with a reputation as an infrastructure guru on Capitol Hill, often convincing RINOs to sign onto projects that, in all fairness, they probably shouldn’t have. (To be fair, he also has done a great deal to hold the line on spending when the Biden White House has tried to get him to go along with larded-up “infrastructure” deals that are little more than trillion-dollar boondoggles.)

Thus, again with no legacy left to prove, he could do what any sane person should: Make things as hard as possible for Kamala Harris to get the nomination.