Joe Manchin: “The gathering was not a Christmas party.”

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…

I will make a decision in January -- at the end of this year.

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.

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