He might not have won the seat at all if he wasn’t a popular governor when he ran for the Senate in 2010. Manchin is the only Democrat who holds statewide office in West Virginia. And when in conflict, the party’s growing left-liberal wing prevailed over working-class interests: New environmental regulations hurt West Virginia’s already faltering coal industry new gun control laws put Democrat at odds with an electorate where most voting households own a gun (in the 2018 exit polls, 78 percent of voters said someone in their household owned a gun). They did not.īy the late 1990s, the old New Deal labor Democrats no longer defined the party nationally. The promise of a new progressive, governing majority always rested on the assumption that the Democrats would retain enough support among white, working-class voters, especially in the places where New Deal labor liberalism ran the strongest. In a way, West Virginia voters have been thwarting progressive hopes ever since. Biden has said he plans to run for a second term, but at 79, his age has become an uncomfortable issue.īut Democrats began to lose their grip on the state during the 1990s, at least at the presidential level.
But his low approval ratings could complicate his efforts to help Democrats in the midterm elections. On the Campaign Trail: Fresh off a series of legislative victories, Mr. Biden is back campaigning.Biden has taken pains to show that he understands that not all Republicans are what he calls extremist “MAGA Republicans.”
The Biden Presidency With midterm elections approaching, here’s where President Biden stands.
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