West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is headlining today at the event in New Hampshire organized by No Labels, the third party outfit that promotes itself as “middle of the road” or “common sense” and hopes to get on the ballot in 50 states for the 2024 presidential election with a “unity ticket”, much to the Democratic Party’s chagrin.

No Labels has been around for more than a decade but is coming closer to full disrupter status now, despite being little known or understood outside political insiders.

Manchin has not declared yet whether he will run for reelection.

If he ran for the presidency as a No Labels candidate, it could not only split the Democratic vote in a way that gives the White House to the Republicans in 2024 but also hands the party his crucial seat in what is currently a finely-balanced Senate where the Democrats have a very narrow majority.

Manchin will appear today alongside former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, at St Anselm College in the first of a series of so-called common sense town halls No Labels is hosting, the Hill reports.

Joe Manchin (left) talks with right-wing Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville on Capitol Hill on July 11, 2023. Photograph: Kevin Wurm/Reuters

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