Joe Manchin: “We are not saying ban it. We are saying basically when it hits a critical mass that concerns us that the Americans are…”

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.

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