Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
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Summary
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2024. Manchin’s decision to step down leaves Democrats in a bind and jeopardizes their narrow 51-49 Senate majority.
The White House said on Thursday that Israel agreed to daily, four-hour-long pauses in its military operation in Gaza to allow civilians to evacuate. These pauses will also make it easier for deliveries of humanitarian aid to get into Gaza safely, and hopefully facilitate the release of more of the 200 hostages still being held.
And in headlines: the U.S. is one week away from another potential government shutdown, federal officials are investigating a series of suspicious letters sent to local election offices, and the trailblazing feminist website Jezebel will shutter after 16 years.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, |
| 0:05.0 | Friday, November 10th. I'm Juanita Tolliver. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Priyanka Arabindi, and this is what a day. On today's show, the latest from Gaza |
| 0:15.0 | where there will be pauses in the fighting |
| 0:16.7 | so civilians can evacuate. |
| 0:18.8 | Plus, we are just one week away |
| 0:21.0 | from another potential government shutdown. |
| 0:24.0 | But first, in the news that made me audibly grown, |
| 0:27.9 | Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia |
| 0:30.5 | announced that he will not seek re-election to the US Senate in |
| 0:33.6 | 2024 but let's not call this a retirement because Manchin's announcement |
| 0:38.3 | video was full of campaign vibes and language take a listen. I've made one of the toughest decisions of my life |
| 0:44.7 | and decided that I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate. But what |
| 0:50.2 | I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, I don't know who's going to answer this call for this man's movement but he's going to be out there. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, one of the toughest decisions of his life, one of the easiest of mine to not watch the video. |
| 1:10.8 | So I'm just going to say that. Interestingly enough though, the part |
| 1:15.8 | that Joe Houseboy Mansion left out was the fact that his exit from the Senate |
| 1:20.8 | leaves Democrats in a bind. |
| 1:22.8 | Yes, okay, that is the heart of the matter here. |
| 1:25.6 | Democrats have a 5 149 majority over Republicans in the Senate. |
| 1:30.6 | How difficult will he be for Democrats to retain the Senate majority in |
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