On Monday the star expressed her frustration with Manchin, who represents West Virginia, when the Democratic senator introduced he wouldn’t help President Joe Biden’s Construct Again Higher Act.
Midler initially tweeted “What #JoeManchin, who represents a inhabitants smaller than Brooklyn, has performed to the remainder of America, who desires to maneuver ahead, not backward, like his state, is horrible.”
“He offered us out,” she wrote. “He desires us all to be similar to his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”
There was swift backlash and Middler later tweeted an apology.
“I apologize to the nice individuals of WVA for my final outburst,” she tweeted partially. “I am simply seeing crimson.”
