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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am very curious to see how this all shakes out.  Manchin is talking a good game, but in he end he needs some kind of infrastructure bull to pass.  For all his grandstanding in 2018 about that being his last Senate campaign, he’s been quietly fundraising for 2024 and is going to run again.  He barely eked out a win last time and his approval numbers in WV are shaky, so he needs something to solidify support at home.  Not delivering something for his state on infrastructure will hurt him a lot.[/quote]

At some point, I think he's going to realize his only chance of getting the infrastructure bill is to give the house liberals some reasonable parameters of what he's willing to support (in terms of cost, red lines, etc.), and let them pick and choose among the priorities.  His current public demand that they vote for his bill now, while he thinks about their bill until next year (an election year) makes me think he believes he has more leverage than he does.  The best move for Pelosi may be to let the bill fail on Sept. 27.  It will be a media disaster, but it will make it very clear to everyone on where leverage lies.  And if it ends up with both bills passing, no one in November 2022 will remember the failed vote in Sept. 2021.[/quote]

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