manchin votes for which is underscore the incredible box senate democrats are in right now if they don t want to try to continue to work through scarecrow manchin. many democrats wasted no time reacting to manchin s announcement and here is senator bernie sanders . i think he s going to have a lot of explaining to do to the people of west virginia to tell them why he didn t have the guts to take on the drug companies and lower the cost of prescription drugs and expanding healthcare, west virginia is one of the poorest states in this country. i hope we ll bring a strong bill to the floor of the senate and let manchin explain to the people of west virginia why he does not have the guts to stand up to powerful interest. you want to vote on it no matter what. absolutely. the american people have got to understand what s at stake. the chair of the progressive