“January 6 changed me”

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said that “January 6 changed me” during a CNN interview in response to why he’s not giving up on bipartisanship. He said in the interview, “I never thought in my life – I never read in history books to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is Washington, D.C., at our Capitol, by our own people. Now the British did it, but not Americans. So, something told me, wait a minute. Pause. Hit the pause button. Something is wrong. You can’t have this many people split to where they want to go to war with each other.” “I think we can find a pathway forward, I really do. I’m going to be sitting down with both sides and understanding where everybody is coming from... There are Republicans who feel exactly the way I feel,” he added.