Operating at opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, the pair of old school Democrats put on a big show about bipartisanship, whimsically yearning for the days of yore when politics was more civilized.
Biden’s pledge to restore the “soul” of America has become as well-worn as his Amtrak anecdotes, while Manchin has relished his role as the literal lynchpin to the Democrats’ razor thin Senate majority. He has been the subject of countless thumb-sucking profiles by the national media, at times drawing the ire of the hard left galled at his “moderate” posturing.
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