Joe Manchin’s 1st Quarter campaign finance filing is out, and the biggest takeaway is just how little of his campaign cash is coming from West Virginia.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that just five(!) West Virginians donated to Manchin’s campaign, accounting for just 3% of individual donations. To put that number in perspective, residents of both Washington, DC and New York donated more than four times as much to Manchin’s campaign as West Virginians. To add insult to injury, Manchin also received more cash from radical Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s PAC than from West Virginians! Why do all of these out-of-state liberal donors want to see Joe Manchin reelected? Could it be because he stuck by Hillary Clinton, even after she promised to put coal miners out of work? Or maybe because he votes with Elizabeth Warren nearly 80% of the time? Whatever the reason, West Virginians will be keeping a close eye on Manchin as he cozies up to out-of-state donors.
“Liberal out-of-state donors from places like New York and Washington, D.C. love Joe Manchin because they know they can always count on him when they need his vote in the Senate,” said NRSC Spokesman Bob Salera. “You know Joe Manchin has a problem with West Virginians when 97% of his campaign cash comes from outside of the Mountain State.”
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*“Money from outside the Mountain State is pouring into West Virginia’s Senate race, with more likely to appear before the 2018 elections.
“Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has received more money from individual donors in Texas ($95,600), Washington D.C. ($33,000), New York ($32,300), Massachusetts ($22,500), Virginia ($19,700), Maryland ($10,700) and Connecticut ($10,400) than West Virginia.
“According to data from his recent Federal Election Commission filing, five West Virginians have donated a total of $7,900 to Manchin’s Senate campaign for the first quarter of 2018.”
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“Breaking down the numbers, just 3 percent of Manchin’s contributions came from West Virginia residents, as opposed to 37 percent from Texas, 13 percent from Washington D.C. and 13 percent from New York.” *