Joe Manchin: “If anything, I'd rather cut 200,000 contractors and keep the 100,000 uniforms and use the support of our National Guard.”

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

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

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

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.