“The president’s plan — ‘Obamacare,’ as it’s been called — is far too reaching. It’s overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed,” Manchin said Monday on Fox News. “If you can’t fix that, repeal the whole thing.”

The harsh words against Washington Democrats’ signature legislative achievement this Congress is just the latest effort by Manchin to distance himself from President Obama and establishment Democrats. The governor, who represents a coal-heavy state, said that Obama was “dead wrong” on climate policy and supporting cap-and-trade legislation.