Joe Manchin: “It's a great honor to represent the people of West Virginia.”

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.

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

They don't believe in these extreme causes and going to the extreme mats and fighting each other and hating the other side.

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.