Joe Manchin’s wife taken to hospital after car crash

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The spouse of retiring West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has been taken to hospital after a automotive crash throughout a enterprise journey.

Gayle Connelly Manchin, 76, is in a “secure situation”, the senator stated on Tuesday in a press release.

“On Monday, my spouse Gayle and her colleague Man Land have been concerned in a automotive accident on the best way from the airport to the resort in Birmingham, Alabama for an Appalachian Regional Fee occasion that was deliberate for right now,” Mr Manchin stated.

“Each have been admitted to UAB Hospital and are receiving wonderful care. She stays in secure situation however will keep there for a few days for precautionary measures,” he stated earlier than thanking “the primary responders who answered the decision and have been first on-site to supply help and assist”.

Ms Connelly Manchin, served as first woman of West Virginia when Mr Manchin was governor between 2005 and 2010. She’s at the moment the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Fee. Between 2017 and 2018, she was the state’s secretary of training and the humanities below GOP Governor Jim Justice, and from 2013 till the next 12 months, she served because the president of the state’s board of training.

Mr Manchin introduced in November that he wouldn’t be looking for re-election, nearly actually handing his seat to the Republicans within the deep-red state. He has stated that he’s contemplating a run for president, with observers saying that Mr Manchin working as an unbiased might hand the White Home to former President Donald Trump.

That very same month, he instructed the press that “the two-party system, until it modifications, would be the downfall of our nation”.

This month, he instructed the press that “if there’s going to be an possibility or a necessity for an possibility, you’ll discover out by then” in reference to Tremendous Tuesday in early March.

“By March, you’re going to have just about a lay of the land and what you’re going to have and what you’re going to be provided,” he added.

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