He says he's not campaigning, so what is Joe Manchin doing in New Hampshire?

Manchester, New Hampshire — It's presidential primary season, and less than two weeks before the New Hampshire primary, while politicians are trekking across the state asking for votes, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is here, too. 

He's not on either major party's primary ballot, but he's not exactly ruling out running for president, and he was in Manchester Friday talking to voters. 

"I'm not here campaigning. I'm here basically, concerned about my country, same as you," Manchin told a room of donors and local political leaders at St. Anselm College, at the first of two events featuring the longtime West Virginia Democrat. "Wherever life takes me, I'm willing to do, but I'm gonna give everything I have to save the country."