Manchin calls Trump the most committed president since Clinton in a new book

Former senator Joe Manchin, IW.VA., said he spoke more with President Donald Trump in the first two years of Trump’s mandate than with former President Barack Obama during Obama’s eight years.

In his new book, “Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense”, published this week, Manchin underlined a cordial working relationship with Trump and a much colder and less active back and forth with Obama.

Manchin, who went from the Democratic Party to become independent before withdrawing from the Senate last year, wrote that he considered Trump as a “foreign” colleague when he arrived in Washington, DC, for his first mandate and praised him as the “most committed president with whom I worked” since former President Bill Clinton.

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Former senator Joe Manchin, Iw.va., detailed a cordial relationship with President Donald Trump in his new book. (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

“From the start, President Trump had an open communication line with me,” he wrote. “I spoke to him more during the first two years of his presidency than to President Obama during the eight years of his mandate.”

He noted: “If you want to have an influence with Donald Trump, you must be the last person he talks about a subject”, and said he would likely ask that the president makes sure that he was the last person he called.

“He laughed and we talked about it,” he said.

He recalled his electoral campaign in 2018 following the dominant victory of 40 points of Trump in the state. Trump told Manchin that he had suffered pressure to campaign against him and promised that he would not do it. In the end, Trump visited the state five times, but Manchin has always come out in the lead.

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Former senator Joe Manchin, IW.VA., detailed a more cordial relationship with President Donald Trump than his distant relationship with former president Barack Obama. (Press St. Martin)

He was then invited to the oval office to meet Trump, where, in front of the president of the time, Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump, the president “dropped his other guests:” I told you that we could not beat him “,” wrote Manchin.

On Obama, Manchin described a relationship that started with a coal agreement on which the pair collaborated in Illinois while the latter was still a senator, and the first governor of Virginia-Western who turned at the start of his disillusionment with the Democratic Party.

During the 2008 electoral cycle, he said that he had invited both at the time. Hillary Clinton, Dn.y., and Obama to come in Virginia -Western to campaign, but said that Obama has shaken the invitation and said to him: “Let’s be honest – my demographic data does not work well in your state.”

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“But he did not come, and that night belonged to Hillary,” he wrote. “She took advantage of her visit and won the primary of 41 points.”

He said that their relationship had become even colder when Obama launched his “charcoal war” with a push for green initiatives that targeted fossil fuels and states like Virginia-Western.

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Manchin argued that the Democratic Party had become disdainful and had lost contact with the working class as a means of reshaping its program through a progressive lens. This has led to a seismic change in the political alignment of Virginia-Western, of democratic to now a largely republican, he said.

And in the process that started when Obama won in 2008, he said that rural states as his “neglected and undervalued”.

“But that’s exactly how Democrats managed Virginia-Western, and no one has embodied this disconnection more than President Obama,” he wrote.

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