In a recent passage from their book This Will Not Pass, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns describe a dinner held between top Republican senators and Democratic Sen Joe Manchin during which the group attempted to get the conservative-leaning politician to defect to their party.
The excerpt describes how Sen Susan Collins had seen a ripe opportunity for plying the West Virginian after a January 2021 dust up with Vice President Kamala Harris left the politician seeming particularly vulnerable to their entreaties.
