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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,

where the greatest gift any Democratic candidate can receive

is Joe Manchin endorsing their primary opponent.

It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.

Music left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Turns out Connor Lamb got the, as you wrote in our notes, Drift Glass, the Joe

Mansion five-finger blue dog death punch.

Yes, indeed.

Which is from, that's a kill-bill thing, isn't it?

Yeah, it's kind of a kill-bill thing.

It's quite simply the deadliest blow in all of politics.

Joe Manchin hits you with his endorsement and then you walk away all giddy and stuff.

But once you've taken five steps, your candidacy implodes and your campaign falls to the floor dead. And that's

the Joe Manchin effect. The Joe Manchin five-finger blue dog death punch. It's legendary.

And it happened to a couple people. It did. Kurt Schrader lost Bigley despite millions of dollars

from Big Pharma and Joe Manchin's arm around his shoulder.

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