Joe Manchin: “Additionally, I remain troubled by the lack of appropriate and persistent U.S. support and engagement in the Western…”

There’s a lot of good people out here that are looking for a pathway forward.

There’s a lot of young, aggressive, good people with good intentions that love the country and have the youth and vigor to do it, and I’m going to be looking for those people.

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

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.