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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III refused to say Sunday if he would support President Biden for reelection in 2024 in the wake of several polls that show the overwhelming majority of Americans do not want the Democrat to run again.
The centrist West Virginia lawmaker, who has emerged as a major power broker in an evenly divided Senate, would only say that he was not focused on elections in 2022 or 2024. Mr. Biden, already the oldest man ever elected president, would be 82 at the start of a second four-year term in 2025.
“I’m not getting into 2022 or 2024,” he told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.
