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Even blocked by his own, Biden can still make a huge difference Jonathan Freedland

ove aside, Donald Trump: there’s a new American for the world’s progressives to hate. What’s more, he’s not even a Republican, but rather a member of Joe Biden’s Democratic party. He’s Joe Manchin, who represents West Virginia in the US Senate – the body that’s split 50-50, and which Democrats only control if every single senator stays onside. It’s thanks to him – abetted by the Arizona Democrat senator Kyrsten Sinema – that Biden cannot, at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, proudly point to a raft of measures, signed and sealed, by which the US government will

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