Joe Manchin: “I don't think there's a person I know in the Senate, or probably in Congress, who doesn't want to help.”

So you’re not making a commitment that you owe your soul to the company store, or basically to the parties, whether it be a D or an R, they’re going to have to earn your support, but the people will be much better off, and they’ll…

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

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.