CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators outraged with Sen. Joe Manchin’s opposition to a sweeping overhaul of U.S. election law marched through the state’s capital city on Monday evening. Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, denounced the influential moderate Democratic senator. He called for a diverse coalition of working people to apply pressure on Manchin, who recently opposed a $15 minimum wage and the price tag of President Joe Biden’s initial $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Unable to meet with the senator, leaders of the demonstration affixed a poster-sized protest letter to the front doors of his office’s building. Rally-goers took turns signing their names on it.
