Sen. Joe Manchin, who has bemoaned the divisiveness that envelopes Congress, nonetheless took $6,700 in contributions from a member of the divisive lunatic left, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Count Texas Democrat Rep. Filemon Vela as a small but vitriolic benefactor of Manchin, the vulnerable West Virginia Democrat.
Vela in 2016 called President Donald Trump a racist, told him to shove his border wall somewhere unpleasant, has called for impeachment, and he skipped the inauguration and the State of the Union.
"You're a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your a**," Vela wrote in an open letter to Trump in June 2016.
Quite a contrast to Manchin, who wants to be the go along to get along senator who recently complained about Vice President Mike Pence's attacks on him.
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