Joe Manchin actually said...

"The brand got so bad, the D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's just -- it's toxic."

"the pardon makes President Biden’s legacy more difficult"

"What I would have done differently and my recommendations to counsel would have been, why don't you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump for all his charges and make it, you know, it had been it had gone ..."

"I'm not endorsing here. Never. I think that's basically something that could destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology."