Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) ManchinTrump meets with potential Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett at White House Names to watch as Trump picks Ginsburg replacement on Supreme Court Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day MORE (D-W.Va.) says he's up for a duel with a GOP lawmaker who suggested he wanted to challenge female GOP senators to a duel over the party's ObamaCare repeal plan.

Rep. Blake Farenthold Randolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdThe biggest political upsets of the decade Members spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations MORE (R-Texas) on Monday raised the idea of dueling the female senators whom he blamed for killing the GOP efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare by not supporting the bill.

Responding to his comments Tuesday morning, Manchin said, “I’d be okay to step outside with him.”

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He added that the GOP bill would throw his constituents from West Virginia “out in the cold” and defended ObamaCare, even as he admitted that it is not perfect and needs repair.

Farenthold on Monday said the fact that there are senators who “do not have the courage to do some of the things that every Republican in the Senate has to do is just absolutely repugnant to me.”

The Texas lawmaker targeted female Republican senators specifically and said if they were men from Texas, he would ask them to “step outside and settle this Aaron-Burr style.” Burr is famous for shooting and killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.

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