Joe Manchin: “This can be used as a template throughout the West.”

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

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.

American energy production is keeping gas prices down and helping our European allies weaken their dependence on Vladimir Putin, something we should be championing.

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