Joe Manchin: “Why not pay for the service that would be needed that would not get them addicted?”

We’re not trying to start another party.

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.

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