Again: Giving him side-eye or the evil eye or whatever isn’t gonna change the fact that he’s gonna have tremendous power over the Dem Senate caucus even if they flip both GA seats.

That may suck, but that’s where we are. https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1326969135826427906

In 2018, a progressive tried primarying Manchin. She got 30%.

In 2020, the same progressive was the nominee against Capito. She got 27%.

#FunFact: Remember how the “Bernie woulda won” folks insisted that Bernie would have won West Virginia in 2016 because he won the primary there?

Hillary received 26.4%. This year, the Bernie-style progressive received...27%.

(Biden got just under 30% this year BTW.)

My point is there's been this raging debate about whether you need to be a centrist/"conservadem" to win in WV *or* if there's really a huge cache of "hidden progressives" living there who were just waiting for a Bernie-type champion of the WWC to free them.

It's the former.

And no, I'm not happy about that AT ALL. There's a reason I raised money for EVERY Dem challenger, even in WY, OK, TN, SD & WV. I *wanted* that to be the case. I raised $56,000 for Paula Jean Swearengin when she won the primary.

It just isn't the case.

For those wondering, I raised the following for the "ultra long-shot" Dems:
AL (Jones): $177K
KY (McGrath): $236K
LA (Perkins): $75K
NE (Love): $45K
OK (Broyles): $59K
SD (Ahlers): $58K
TN (Bradshaw): $66K
WY (Ben-David): $62K