Joe Manchin: “If there's a possibility I can sit down with you or whoever you would put in that position in front, me and my staff…”

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 down a lot, a lot more balanced, if you…

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…

They’re the kind of the centrist Democrats you need.

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.