Sen. John Fetterman reveals truth about party-switch rumors
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‘I would make a pretty bad Republican’, Fetterman disclosed in an interview. The Pennsylvania Democratic senator has enticed the rumors after several people were under the impression he was cozying up to Donald Trump. “It’s not gonna happen. And even if I wanted to do that, that is a rocket sled to Palookaville to try to switch.
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“I would make a pretty bad Republican”, he said. Instead, he said, it was quite the opposite as he was merely trying to stir up positive relations with the opposition to facilitate progressive policy discussions. He went on to tell Semafor “If they think, ‘oh, it’s going to be like a Manchin or a Sinema play,’ that’s just not true, and that’s not going to happen”, in reference to previous senators who left the Democratic Party but did not caucus – meaning he did not attend a meeting – with Republicans.
His response came after he made a controversial visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to work with Republicans on the Laken Riley Act – a bill that requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain certain non-U.S. nationals (‘aliens’ under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting” – as well as his support for the Israeli government.
During the height of the war on Gaza, Fetterman called out South Africa for bringing a case of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), calling it an “appalling” move. “In fact, if anything, I love it.”. Fetterman also maintained that people need to “chill out” in the wake of the 2.0 Trump era – Democrat supporters specifically, he said, needed to stop freaking out, as expressed to ABC News in December 2024.
