Senator Joe Manchin

No party affiliation.

Independents.

There's only about 23, 24% that are registered Democrats.

About 27, 28, I think, registered Republicans.

The rest are like...

And I said, wait a minute, the Voting Rights Act, they took that, you know, to the court about the African-Americans not having the right to participate and vote.

And they won that one.

Why don't we take this to court?

Why don't we do this on this podcast?

You all take off with it and run with it.

It should be.

We're not.

I am not able to be represented and I can't pick a representative because I can't participate.

My position is this, that the majority of people who are registered to participate in a general election in the United States of America

are basically prevented from participating in the primary process of electing who you're going to vote for in the general.

I think there definitely is a court procedure that could remedy this and basically stop these closed primaries.

The only thing I have said, and I will continue to say this because my Republican friends are the only ones that are saying, we will not get rid of the filibuster in the United States Senate.

And I hold them to their word.

These are my friends, John Thune and his staff and all of his people on his leadership team.

And I hope the Republicans keep the Senate.