Seems like some in the media are cherry picking Manchin quotes
to get some on the left riled up. 
Please don't fall for it.
Link to tweet
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“If it’s $1.9 trillion so be it,” @Sen_JoeManchin says of the rescue plan, while also stressing he wants it to be bipartisan
Manchin says on Morning Joe that Biden told him, we can’t do what we did in 2009 and negotiate for 9 months only to have Republicans still not vote for package in the end
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If the quotes are really his quotes, he's said:
He won't vote for the bill unless a Republican votes for it. If that is still his feeling, and the statement is true, it has to be factored in as we try to decipher how he will vote, no?
"If it's $1.9 trillion so be it" sounds great, but it's still not actually a firm statement of what he'll do in light of that first quote.
A firm statement would be: "If it's $1.9 trillion so be it, I'll still vote for it."
That tweet above just has Manchin telling Morning Joe what Biden told him--it is not really Manchin making a declarative statement of what he'll do. If he had added a phrase like "and I agree with Biden on this" it would actually mean something.
What I'm saying is, if people are confused, it's not entirely their fault or an invention of the media, unless some of the quotes we've seen are inaccurate. IMO people trying to make sense of his quotes are not imagining that they are, in their totality, confusing, contradictory and ambiguous.
