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Support Build Back Better, don`t sink our bill, Senator Manchin.

Joe Manchin's opposition to Build Back Better might have -- might mean that we've lost our chance to tackle any meaningful action, especially with Republicans doing everything they can to suppress the vote and make sure Democrats no longer…

The reason we can’t get what we need the Exxons of the world remain so powerful. So, when we divest, when we persuade banks to financing them, when we do those things, we begin to cut off their power.

Those are the two things that are going to be able to get done, if Democrats want them to, right?

Senator Joe Manchin using the talking point, the fear of inflation and economic fears to tank the president major, you know, policy -- agenda policy.

He has given them a concrete offer basically to the White House, $1.8 trillion, universal pre-K for ten years, expansion of Obamacare, some money, I think $500 billion to $600 billion to fight climate change.

There was a while where no one knew what Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia, who has been holding the car.

They called themselves kayaktivists and they held up signs saying support Build Back Better, don’t sink our bill, Senator Manchin.

Senator Joe Manchin did attend the meeting, but didn’t speak much, simply reiterating his concerns the bill, you know, how it will mess up the druggie poors and make them lazy.

I`m caught between the two, but the bottom line is you have to be caucusing somewhere you follow me and if they would ask me to leave, I would just have to say I guess we`ll have to abide by your wishes. I don`t know. I don`t think that`ll…

He`s been consistent in explaining to his colleagues his problems with the legislation including his preference for more taxes on the super rich to pay for the bill.

If conservative Democrat Joe Manchin tanks Biden`s spending plans, it will hurt the economy, coal miners and Goldman Sachs both going public with that view.

If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for it.

We urge Senator Manchin to revisit his opposition of the legislation and work with his colleagues to pass something that will help keep coal miners working.

Senator Manchin and I are going to get something done.

And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can`t. I have tried everything humanly possible. I can`t get there.

I knew where they were and I knew what they could and could not do. They just never realized it, because they figured surely to God we can move one person. The bottom line, I knew that we could not change. It was never going to change. It…

Senator Manchin did in fact, join that Democratic strategy call.