Joe Manchin: “When a soldier tells me with his own mouth and he says I am going to go do exactly what I am doing now.”

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.

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

We’re not trying to start another party.

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