Joe Manchin: “We want to make sure that we are able to do the job you need for our country, and we need somebody to help rattle the…”

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.

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

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