Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) offered President Joe Biden rare praise in an op-ed on Monday, but it was on a topic that Democrats have steered away from touting out of fear it would divide the voter base.
Manchin claimed that Biden should be proud of the “record-breaking” energy production that is happening in the country, including the production of oil, gas, and renewable energy.
“I’m going to do something you probably haven’t heard me do much in the past three years: I want to congratulate President Biden for the record-breaking energy production we are seeing in America today,” Manchin wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. “Our country has never been more energy-independent than we are today. This is something to celebrate.”
The senator went on to credit the country’s energy successes on the Bipartisan Infrastructure
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