Joe Manchin: “What we're investing in our National Guard is an ability to expand over a period of time--39 days a year they train.”

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

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 got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.