Joe Manchin Could Upend the Presidential Race

“Sen. Joe Manchin says he ‘absolutely’ can see himself as president,” CNN reports.

“Privately, the West Virginia Democrat has told people that a Joe Biden health scare or a Donald Trump conviction could give him an opening to run as an independent this year.”

“If Manchin runs, he would want to do so using state ballot lines being secured by No Labels, a bipartisan group that has asserted itself as the answer for a political moment in which voters keep telling pollsters they don’t want a Biden-Trump rematch and are exhausted by the political tribalism.”