The conservative West Virginia Democrat said in an interview on Thursday that he’s working with Biden, the presumptive nominee, on an endorsement that will come in tandem with a plan to help shield his state from job loss. It’s not a given that Manchin would support Democrats’ presidential platform: He nearly pulled his endorsement from Hillary Clinton in 2016 after she suggested she’d put coal miners out of work, did not support President Barack Obama in 2012 and was recoiling at the thought of Bernie Sanders as Democrats’ nominee this year.
Sen. Joe Manchin will endorse Joe Biden for president, putting to bed any thought that he might not support the Democratic presidential nominee this time around https://t.co/b08TH2xvXR
— POLITICO (@politico) April 16, 2020
.@Sen_JoeManchin tells @burgessev he is working w/ @JoeBiden on an endorsement that will come in tandem with a plan to help shield West Virginia from job losshttps://t.co/fopVrl8E7E
— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) April 16, 2020