Joe Manchin: “I have worked with Governor Christie, Governor Cuomo, and Senators Schumer and Menendez to jumpstart this project.”

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.

My observation, and recommendation from observation, would be, John, trust me, set yourself free and become an independent.

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.