Democrats hope Biden can flip Manchin and Sinema
By Alexander Bolton - 09/15/21 07:45 PM EDT
President Biden met face to face with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday, stepping up his involvement in the effort to unify congressional Democrats behind a $3.5 trillion spending package.
Democratic lawmakers are hailing Biden’s personal attention as a game-changing development at a critical moment.
“The ones who are negotiating publicly, I think it is fair to say, they’re the toughest votes to get,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said of Manchin and Sinema.
“This is really important for the Biden administration, and so it’s all on deck,” he added of the efforts to get the two holdouts to support the reconciliation package.
Kaine noted that Biden “has a strong personal relationship with Manchin.”
“Both Joe and Kyrsten really want [Biden] to be a successful president. (A) It’s good for the country. (B) It’s good for their states. (C) It’s good for their own politics,” Kaine added.
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