Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’

Democratic senator is leaving Congress but there's speculation he might be eyeing a third-party bid for the presidency

Joe Manchin, the controversial Democratic US senator from West Virginia who is stepping down from Congress, has warned that if Donald Trump is sent back to the White House in next year's presidential election he will destroy democracy in America".

Manchin delivered a withering attack on Trump a week after he announced that he will not seek re-election in 2024. He said that it would be dangerous" if the American people gave Trump a second term as he would use the opportunity not merely to shake up the political establishment as he did first time round, but to break it.