Joe Manchin: “If you want to know the geopolitical problems that we have, it is rural versus urban and it gets bigger, and the chasm…”

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

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.

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

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