http://hotair.com/archives/2017/01/12/manchin-sessions-has-my-vote-for-ag/
Manchin took a slap at his Democratic colleagues for their attempts at character assassination, albeit in a barely veiled fashion:
MANCHIN: "Jeff Sessions has my vote, he's my friend. I've built relationships and friendships here. I don't care whether they're Democrats, Republicans, independents. We were sent here, basically sent here to work to make America better, and Jeff Sessions, I've known him for six years. We've been friends, we talk about an array of things. I have never detected - never one ounce of detection - that Jeff Sessions is what they have said."

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence