Sen. Joe Manchin (D-Virginia) announced Friday that he will not run for president, ending months of speculation that he would enter the race on a third-party ticket.
“I’m not going to run as a third-party candidate and I’m not going to be involved in the presidential race,” Manchin said.
Manchin was speaking at West Virginia University as part of a “listening tour” that began last month with his daughter’s activist group Americans Together, a movement that calls itself a “moderate majority” that rejects “extremism.” This announcement was made on . In politics. ”
“I’m working with my daughter, I’m working with the people around Americans Together, and I’m doing everything I can to make that happen,” Manchin said Friday.
Manchin previously said he would not decide whether to run until after Super Tuesday on March 5.
Manchin said Thursday at a breakfast forum at the Cleveland City Club that he would tentatively name Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or former Ohio Sen. Rob Portman as his running mate.
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