Joe Manchin: “I do want to associate myself with Senator Stabenow. This is a separate issue. I am gravely concerned, Madam Chair…”

I told him he was crazy in 2020 from working against her so hard and he’s crazy now to work against her.

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

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.

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