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Joe Manchin: “When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to…”

On the recordJuly 1, 2026
When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin discusses the benefits of being independent.

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