{"id":1250749,"date":"2022-01-28T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1250749"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:07:46","slug":"republicans-line-up-behind-manchin-and-sinema-amid-their-independent-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-line-up-behind-manchin-and-sinema-amid-their-independent-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Line Up Behind Manchin And Sinema Amid Their Independent Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Frepublicans-line-up-behind-manchin-and-sinema-amid-their-independent-streak%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=1250749&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--><p>As left-wing Democrats sour on Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, they are finding new allies \u2014 and donors \u2014 in Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Langone, a co-founder of The Home Depot and a prominent GOP donor, donated $5,000 to Manchin\u2019s leadership PAC in December 2021, the most an individual can give to a political action committee in a year, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/27\/ken-langone-donated-to-joe-manchin-pac-after-senator-opposed-build-back-better-act.html?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_content=Main&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=46607#Echobox=1643310159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. This donation came right after Manchin effectively killed President Joe Biden\u2019s Build Back Better Act, infuriating some of his fellow Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see leadership any place in this country,\u201d Langone told CNBC before he made his contribution. \u201cI\u2019m going to have one of the biggest fundraisers I\u2019ve ever had for him. He\u2019s special. He\u2019s precious. He\u2019s a great American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has also received praise from some Senate Republican colleagues in recent months, especially after he and Sinema refused to go along with their party\u2019s effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/senate-caps-history-making-day-rejecting-filibuster-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rework the filibuster to pass Democrats\u2019 voting bills<\/a>. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans even <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/22\/joe-manchin-mitch-mcconnell-john-cornyn-switch-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressured Manchin to switch parties<\/a> late last year: \u201cwe would love to have him on our team,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cI think he\u2019d be more comfortable.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/joe-manchin-fires-back-after-gloves-off-statement-opposition-bidens-spending-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018They Know The Real Reason\u2019: Manchin Fires Back At The White House After Gloves-Off Statement Criticizes His Opposition To BBB)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7355771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7355771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Kyrsten Sinema walks through the Capitol basement in January. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sinema has also been heralded by conservatives as talk of a primary challenge from the left in 2024 intensifies and she faces censure by the Arizona Democratic Party. She, like Manchin, garnered praise from her GOP colleagues after refusing to alter the filibuster, and her standing among Republicans in her home state has skyrocketed despite a likely competitive reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p>But some Democrats have made their disapproval of the duo known. Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-congress-bernie-sanders-a6fb9d7858f24aa6a40dca5542eac9e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> he would back primary challengers to both Manchin and Sinema in 2024, and Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego has teased support for a primary challenge to unseat Sinema, while one recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataforprogress.org\/blog\/2022\/1\/26\/poll-arizona-senator-kyrsten-sinema-set-to-be-unseated-by-possible-challenger-ruben-gallego-in-2024-primary-landslide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> showed him up by nearly 60 points.<\/p>\n<p>Another unreleased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/activists-are-aiming-sen-sinema-winning-republican-friends-rcna13487?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=46607\">poll<\/a> reported by NBC News, however, showed that while Sinema\u2019s popularity among Democrats had dropped to just 42%, her support among Republicans stood at 44%, a strong showing that could be the difference in the consequential battleground state.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As left-wing Democrats sour on Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, they are finding new allies \u2014 and donors \u2014 in Republicans.Ken Langone, a co-founder &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1250749","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\/1250749","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250749\/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=1250749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}