Manchin is a DINO, almost of necessity, because he represents a constituency of closed-minded coal miners and others connected to that dying industry. He really has only limited choices if he doesn't want to lose his Senate seat.
Jones squeaked by in his campaign against a goddam pedophile! and most likely would be sure to lose re-election if he acted like a Democrat -- he's likely to lose anyway because Alabama.
And Sinema, same deal: she beat out a fascist liar (who is now running for the other Senate seat from Arizona) and may have convinced herself that Barr would be an upright man of honor and integrity and not a corrupt, venal blob whose answer to questions about his ruined "legacy" because of his kissing of Trump's posterior was "well, everybody's gonna die."
Of the three, I can give Manchin a pass -- the Dems need his seat, dammit, and if he's primaried, who is going to take his place? -- and beat a Republican?
Jones has to please Alabamans, but if he's the only Democrat who can hold that seat, let's keep him and hope that maybe, somehow, he can guide Alabaman voters to rejoin the human race and stop backing people like Jeff Sessions.
Sinema, again, beat out a fascist in a very tight race. Don't expect her to be a publicly fierce protector of the Liberal philosophy. Being unashamedly and openly bisexual is enough to give her credit for liberal politics -- so I wouldn't primary her and risk losing her seat to the party of racists because she felt constrained to vote for the first unashamedly and openly nihilistic AG. (Seriously, he said, words to the effect of "hell, I don't care about my legacy because what will it mean to me after I'm dead?"
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