Former Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to Campaign for Republican Candidate in Key Senate Race

Joe Manchin, the former Democrat Senator of West Virginia who turned independent, is now going to campaign for a Republican in one of the races that could determine the outcome of the Senate.

Manchin is headed to Maine to campaign for Senator Susan Collins.

The left already hate Manchin for leaving the Democrat Party and this should just drive them further into rage.

FOX News reports:

A top Senate Republican whom Democrats are salivating at the chance to unseat is getting an unexpected assist from a former member of their own party, delivering a political snub to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Former Sen. Joe Manchin, who left the Democratic Party to become an independent before retiring from the Senate, is making a swing into Maine to support Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the lawmaker’s campaign confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Collins is locked in a tight race against former Maine state Sen. Troy Jackson as she seeks a sixth term in the upper chamber. The race has remained close after it was shaken up earlier this year when Graham Platner dropped out after a sexual assault allegation rocked his campaign.

Manchin’s visit on the trail with Collins, first reported by Semafor, comes as Schumer and Democrats have tried to paint Collins as a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, though she has often broken with the president during his second term, most notably on his signature legislation, the “one big, beautiful bill.”…

His foray onto the campaign trail in Maine on Wednesday will come just 24 hours before another major surrogate for Democrats will make her way to Vacationland: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Jackson has had other progressive heavyweights join him on the campaign stump, too, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Good for him.

Joe Manchin is heading to Maine to campaign for Republican Sen. Susan Collins — a sharp rebuke to Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party he left behind.

The former Democrat-turned-independent told Semafor that Collins "is not a Trump senator," pointing to her bipartisan record… pic.twitter.com/3Izlok2f8q

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 19, 2026

It’s no surprise that Manchin likes Collins. They are both moderates.

Collins has never enjoyed wide support from conservatives but she is getting it in this election cycle because the alternative is so awful.

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