Joe Manchin: “I hope it is because West Virginia has been blessed. I just hope there's as much as you tell me.”

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

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.

We’re not trying to start another party.

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