Biden's drilling and coal comments expose Democratic rift days before election

President Joe Biden exposed a rift within the Democratic Party just two days before an election with his off-the-cuff pledge to approve "no more drilling."
 

At the end of a rally with embattled Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), Biden made apparently spontaneous comments to a heckler and opened up another midterm headache for his party.

The remarks come on the heels of a spat Biden started with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) by saying he's going to shut down coal plants across the country and appear to directly contradict comments the president made just days before.

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