The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website February 1, 2018:
Vulnerable West Virginia senator ‘shocked’ at VP’s speech to Republican retreat in home state
Updated 2:05 p.m. | Sen. Joe Manchin apparently did not vent enough on Wednesday when he responded to Mike Pence’s speech in West Virginia in which the vice president criticized the Mountain State Democrat for voting against the Republican tax code overhaul in December.
So he did what most politicians do now when they’re frustrated: let loose on Twitter.
Manchin defended his voting record’s pro-Trump tilt and accused the administration — not himself — of playing partisan politics. Continue reading “Manchin Gets Saltier at Pence: No One Is More Bipartisan Than Me”