Joe Manchin: “I thank Senator Lankford and many of our colleagues--throughout the work that we've been doing on the Secure Elections…”

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.

We don't even have a budget anymore.

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

I will make a decision in January -- at the end of this year.