Joe Manchin: “I am afraid that China could do the same thing, and we are not up and ready to run.”

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…

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

This is not right. She is the soul of America. She is the soul of the Senate, and he knows he needs more Susan Collins, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on.

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.