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Marina Dunbar

Manchin urges lawmakers to stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence

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Joe Manchin during a Senate appropriations committee hearing in Washington DC on 8 November 2023. Photograph: Julia Nikhinson/Reuters

Politicians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday.

The West Virginia independent who generally caucused with Senate Democrats echoed similar comments made at a town hall Saturday by Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death in September.

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