No one knows less about mobilizing the middle of America than Joe Manchin

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia posted a flowery farewell video Tuesday, announcing he would not seek reelection to the Senate.

But this was no retirement speech. Rather, it reeked of being a preamble to a third-party presidential bid with No Labels, the dodgy dark money group that has been shopping around a bipartisan 2024 "unity" ticket.

Instead of running for reelection, Manchin said, "what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”