It's gonna be great watching centrist Democrats find an excuse to blame progressives when the person who represents centrists perfectly hands the Senate to Mitch McConnell.
The country is going to hand McConnell the Senate. The 2024 map is so bad that Biden could win by 9 points nationally and still end up with a GOP Senate.
Depends on the issue, I suppose. If it's progressive policy, he'll continue to caucus with Republicans. And centrists will continue to support him, it seems.
What I'm talking about is who decides the majority leader and the majority party. Right now, even though Manchin doesn't always vote for Democrat bills, he does vote to make Democrats the majority party in the Senate.