Scarborough Urges Dems to Ignore Manchin, Push Through $15/Minimum Wage Hike

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SCARBOROUGH: “So, Willie, we have Republicans who are talking there and who are expressing their concerns. You could also hear concerns from Democrat Joe Manchin. Not exactly sure right now where Kyrsten Sinema is, but Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are usually pretty close together. Joe Manchin has just come out and said, 'Listen, anything above $11 an hour minimum wage hurts my people in my state.' So it will be interesting to see where Joe Manchin goes here. I suspect that by the end of the day he will try to separate the minimum wage portion of this bill. And by the way, listen, he should. I really believe if you are going to do a Covid relief bill, do a Covid relief bill. If you want to do a minimum wage bill, put that out on the side and then vote on that next. Because this whole idea that $15 an hour is just what a bunch of freaks and left-wingers in Seattle are doing, not true anymore. The state of Florida, as conservative as it is, passed actually a law, voters, on one of the constitutional amendments where they actually supported a $15 minimum wage increase phased in, which is something that this bill is doing too. So this is also sort of mainstream. So put it in a separate bill, make Republicans vote against it. Then they will have two popular bills that they will be voting against.”