It Makes No Sense for Joe Manchin to Run as a Third Party Candidate in 2024

Jeremy Fassler
4 min readJul 13, 2023
Photograph courtesy of AP

This month, Joe Manchin will appear at an event in New Hampshire sponsored by No Labels, a bipartisan organization who aim to nominate and run a centrist presidential candidate next year provided they get nationwide ballot access. Manchin has not explicitly stated whether he will run for President next year — the most he’s said is that he hasn’t ruled it out —…

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.