{"id":1143325,"date":"2021-12-22T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143325"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:17","slug":"mcconnell-on-manchin-switching-parties-we-would-love-to-have-him-on-our-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-on-manchin-switching-parties-we-would-love-to-have-him-on-our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell on Manchin Switching Parties: &#039;We Would Love to Have Him on Our Team&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-on-manchin-switching-parties-we-would-love-to-have-him-on-our-team%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/McConnell-and-Manchin-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who only needs to pick up one seat to be in the majority, said he would love to have Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) switch political parties, adding that he would be more comfortable as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we would love to have him on our team\u2026 I think he\u2019d be more comfortable,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/21\/us\/politics\/mcconnell-manchin-republican.html\">said<\/a> to the <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;after there have been reports of Manchin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/report-joe-manchin-may-become-an-independent-after-white-house-accuses-him-of-disloyalty\/\">contemplating<\/a> leaving the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The reports emerged after the administration of President&nbsp;Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.&nbsp;accused the senator of disloyalty when he&nbsp;effectively&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/19\/joe-manchin-to-oppose-4-91-trillion-build-back-better-act-effectively-killing-bill\/\">killed<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cmarquee legislation\u201d of Biden\u2019s legislative agenda, the&nbsp;Build Back Better Act&nbsp;(BBB), after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/19\/manchin-i-cant-vote-for-build-back-better-amid-real-inflation\/\">saying<\/a> he could not vote for the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done everything possible. And you know my concerns I had,&nbsp;and I still have these concerns&nbsp;and where I\u2019m at right now,\u201d Manchin said during an appearance on&nbsp;<em>Fox News Sunday<\/em>. \u201cIf I can\u2019t go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can\u2019t vote for it. I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also said that he was \u201castonished\u201d by the aggressive response from the White House towards Manchin.&nbsp;\u201cWhy in the world would they want to call him a liar and try to hotbox him and embarrass him,\u201d McConnell questioned.&nbsp;\u201cI think the message is, \u2018We don\u2019t want you around.\u2019 Obviously that is up to Joe Manchin, but he is clearly not welcome on that side of the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator\u2019s colleagues in the House and Senate,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/19\/white-house-turns-joe-manchin-killing-joe-bidens-build-back-better-bill\/\">said<\/a> in a statement after his TV appearance on Sunday, indicating that the senator broke his word with Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as Senator Manchin reversed his position on Build Back Better this morning, we will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again, to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word,\u201d Psaki added.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also told the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> that the Senate Republicans had a successful year as it comes to a close, and the Democrats were unable to pass some of their larger bills that he&nbsp;characterized as a \u201csocialist surge that has captured the other side.\u201d He also acknowledged they did so without causing the government to shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The minority leader also said he was grateful to Democrat&nbsp;Sen.&nbsp;Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for not allowing the Democrat to break the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cKyrsten Sinema has been quite unequivocal that she is not going to break the Senate and eliminate the legislative filibuster,\u201d he said. \u201cThank goodness for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who only needs to pick up one seat to be in the majority, said he would love to have Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}