Joe Manchin: “When parents send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. However, this is not always the case.”

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.

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

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