{"id":2843,"date":"2023-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/manchin-fires-back-obama-adviser-called-him-dead-man-walking-west-virginia-funny-comment\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"manchin-fires-back-obama-adviser-called-him-dead-man-walking-west-virginia-funny-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/manchin-fires-back-obama-adviser-called-him-dead-man-walking-west-virginia-funny-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin fires back at Obama adviser who called him 'dead man walking' in West Virginia: 'Funny comment'"},"content":{"rendered":"
FIRST ON FOX \u2013 <\/strong>Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., fired back at CNN analyst and former Obama advisor David Axelrod<\/a> on Monday after the latter called him a “dead man walking” in West Virginia. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Axelrod joined the hosts of “CNN This Morning” on Monday to discuss Manchin, a moderate Democrat who hasn’t ruled out a possible third-party bid for the White House.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t want to be unkind to Senator Manchin, but he\u2019s kind of [a] dead man walking in West Virginia. There\u2019s nowhere for him to go. He\u2019s got a popular Republican governor in a state that Donald Trump pretty much carried by almost 40 points. He didn\u2019t win by very much last time. So he knows that he can\u2019t win re-election in that state. This would be a graceful exit for him. And he may believe there are people in that \u2018No Labels\u2019 movement trying to persuade him that he could actually win in a race with Biden and Trump,” Axelrod said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Manchin spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the senator’s focus is on West Virginia. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n