Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, told a local news station on Thursday that he “would think very seriously” about leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent. “I’ve been thinking about that for quite some time,” Mr. Manchin said in an interview on MetroNews’s “Talkline” show, adding: “The brand has become so bad, the D brand and R brand. In West Virginia, the D brand because it’s nationally bad. It’s not the Democrats in West Virginia. It’s the Democrats in Washington, or the Washington policies of the Democrats.

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Persons: Joe Manchin III, “ I’ve, ” Mr, Manchin, MetroNews’s, It’s, You’ve, I’m, ”, Biden Organizations: Democrat, Democratic Party, Washington Democrat, Republican Locations: West Virginia, Washington