So, the voters of W.VA. will help Trump take down America by not making Manchin fight for Biden?

[joetheman]

hat's it in a nutshell. History will record that when they had a chance to save America, as the folks in GA did, W.VA. voters chose to obstruct the best chance to save it by pushing Manchin to support Trump.

[doc03]

1. He will be a hero in WV if he can do like

McTurtle and stops Biden. Then they will vote for Republicans because Democrats didn't get anything done.
They turned on Democrats for not doing anything for WV when Senator Byrd brought in billions for the state.
They mocked Senator Byrd calling him Senator KKK Byrd then voted for Trump.

[Botany]

2. I love W.V. and it has some of the prettiest land in the world but it has voters who consistently...

... will vote against their own best interests and our proud to be stupid. Although a raise in the
minimum wage, Joe's infrastructure plan, and bringing broad band into the state will help but the
problems there are deep and Manchin and his daughter are part of the problem too.

Joe is milking his current position of power for all it is worth.

[StarfishSaver]

3. They're not voting against their interests

We keep assuming that their interests are all economic. They have other interests that Manchin and the GOP cater to - and those interests go beyond mere economics

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

4. Yep

[Botany]

5. Voting against Hillary and Joe Biden because Trump lied to them that he was going to bring back ...

... coal was voting against their own best economic interests. Even the miners and their families
know that coal is dying but they took comfort in Trump's lies.

Now, guns, jeez-US, gays (now trans people), racism, sexism, anti education, and distrust
of outsiders are seen and felt to the core of their being as being in their own best interests.
These are some of the reasons why so many young people leave W.V.

BTW drugs have ravaged many small town and rural areas of W.V..

[comradebillyboy]

6. Keep in mind that that very left Democrat

Paula jean Swearing got all of 28% of the popular vote in the 2020 WVa senate election. West Virginia isn't going to elect a liberal much less a DSA or JD type "democratic socialist".

[multigraincracker]

7. They didn't turn down any of those "democratic socialist"

Gubbermint checks. They just have to figure out coal ain't coming back.

[comradebillyboy]

9. But they did resoundingly reject Paula Jean.

Maybe the messaging from the left is a problem.

[doc03]

8. Interview with WV voter

In my day we got black lung and broke our back in the coal mines, most of us died and never saw retirement
and we liked it.

Apologies for Dennis Miller