Joe Manchin: “This campaign has been long. It has been difficult, and it has been costly.”

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.

I want to thank each and every one of my colleagues--all of you. And it has been an honor of a lifetime. It truly has been. And it is something that I will take with me for the rest of my life. And my family will too. But I really mean…

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

What I saw was shameful.