Sen. Manchin says he doesn't "care" about losing Senate seat

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who is up for reelection in a state President Trump won by a wide margin, says he doesn't "give a s**t" about losing his Senate seat.

"I don't give a s**t, you understand? I just don't give a s**t," he told the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Sunday. "Don't care if I get elected, don't care if I get defeated, how about that. If they think because I'm up for election, that I can be wrangled into voting for s**t that I don't like and can't explain, they're all crazy."

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Last week, the state's governor, Jim Justice, publicly announced his switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP at a local rally held by Mr. Trump.

"Like it or not like it, the Democrats walked away from me," Justice said. "Today I will tell you with lots of prayers and lots of thinking...today I will tell you as West Virginians, I can't help you anymore being a Democratic governor."

For seven years, Republicans dined out a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, and in the fall the slogan finally helped the party capture both chambers of Congress and the White House. Turns out, the Affordable Care Act was a lot more popular with Americans than Republicans realized before their offices were inundated with phone calls, letters and emails and their town halls bombarded by constituents imploring them not to strip away their health care benefits.

At least one good thing came out of that painful and prolonged national health care debate: a growing consensus among Americans that not only do they want the government involved in health care – they want the government more involved, not less. One of the major indicators of the changing political landscape was apparent on Wednesday, when Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a Medicare-for-All bill with a record 15 Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate. With Republican majorities in both chambers and Trump in the White House, it's unlikely the bill will garner broad enough support to become law, but the fact that the proposal is being enthusiastically embraced by front-runners for 2020 is a signal that the party is slowly moving toward support for a more comprehensive universal health care system.

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