Analysis | Always listen to Joe Manchin’s public comments, not what others hear in private

Analysis: Always listen to Joe Manchin’s public comments, not what others hear in private

They seem to have all made the same mistake: hearing the nice tones that the West Virginia Democrat said in their private meetings, while dismissing his pessimistic comments in public as standard negotiating ploys.

“It’s what, unfortunately, I saw back in December,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal said after the House finished its weekly session. Out in the hallways, after those meetings, Manchin has continually delivered more neutral assessments of where things stood. Over the past two years, the Senate has seen several major bipartisan proposals in which ad hoc groups negotiated the frameworks, on pandemic relief in December 2020, infrastructure last year and on gun violence in June.

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