- Manchin said Sunday on a Fox News channel that remarks made last week about him not running for president were made “in jest.”
- “I’m not running for president of the United States. I can assure you of that as we sit here today,” Manchin said on a local radio interview.
- The moderate Democrat, whom some think might run his next race as a Republican, seemed Sunday to backtrack about what he said earlier, saying, “Well, the bottom line is, that was in jest. We were talking back and forth, a dear friend of mine, Hoppy Kercheval. We talked. And he said, this minute, this time, this and this.”
