Democrats fear Joe Manchin, No Labels could hand White House back to Trump
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is headlining today at the event in New Hampshire organized by No Labels, the third party outfit that promotes itself as “middle of the road” or “common sense” and hopes to get on the ballot in 50 states for the 2024 presidential election with a “unity ticket”, much to the Democratic Party’s chagrin.
No Labels has been around for more than a decade but is coming closer to full disrupter status now, despite being little known or understood outside political insiders.
Manchin has not declared yet whether he will run for reelection.
If he ran for the presidency as a No Labels candidate, it could not only split the Democratic vote in a way that gives the White House to the Republicans in 2024 but also hands the party his crucial seat in what is currently a finely-balanced Senate where the Democrats have a very narrow majority.
Manchin will appear today alongside former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, at St Anselm College in the first of a series of so-called common sense town halls No Labels is hosting, the Hill reports.
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Kerry Kennedy wrote on Twitter: “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting.”
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I STRONGLY condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting. https://t.co/9YCag7JtHm
— Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) July 17, 2023
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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr faced widespread criticism over the weekend after a video surfaced of him making false claims that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to attack certain ethnic groups while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
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The New York Post on Saturday originally published a clip of Kennedy’s conspiracy theory comments, made during a recent dinner in New York City. In the recording, Kennedy can be heard making a series of false and misleading claims, including saying:
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Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
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Kennedy is also heard saying:
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We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.
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Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said Kennedy’s comments are “deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous” in a tweet on Saturday.
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The Anti-Defamation League told multiple outlets that Kennedy’s comment “feeds into sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories about Covid-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years.”
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Democratic national committee chair Jaime Harrison condemned Kennedy’s remarks and said they do not reflect the views of the party.
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House Democrats plan to unveil a resolution to formally censure Republican congressman George Santos for lying to voters about his education, work history and family background.
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The resolution from Representative Ritchie Torres will be privileged, meaning that the Republican-controlled House must act on it, NBC News reported.
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The measure faces long odds of passing in the House, but Democrats believe forcing a vote will help maintain political pressure on Republican leaders who have stood by the embattled New York congressman in the face of a 13-count federal indictment, the New York Times reported.
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Santos has “disgraced [Congress], and the institution should speak with one voice against his misconduct,” said Torres, who wrote the resolution.
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