John Fetterman came into the Senate as one of the most controversial members in recent memory.
Fetterman’s first term isn’t going like anyone expected.
And John Fetterman will give up his seat because of one daring decision.
John Fetterman tries to give the impression he’s shifting to the center
John Fetterman is facing a 2028 decision.
Fetterman is up for re-election, and he could seek a second term.
POLITICO also reported that Fetterman is one of the party’s top Presidential prospects as he won his Senate seat in increasingly red Pennsylvania by five points.
Either way, Fetterman is acting like a man who knows one way or the other he will be running in a state where the electorate has eight points more Republicans than Democrats and where the voter registration trends point to the state only growing redder.
Fetterman is the one Democrat who has agreed to meet with multiple Trump nominees, including ones that Democrats and the media view as the most “controversial” because they will carry out Donald Trump’s agenda to drain the Swamp.
Fetterman framed these meetings as him simply doing his job as a United States Senator and not as an ideological statement.
“I believe that it’s appropriate and the responsibility of a U.S. Senator to have a conversation with President-elect Trump’s nominees,” Fetterman posted on X.
Fetterman was the first Democrat to meet with Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence.
“That’s why I met with Elise Stefanik and Pete Hegseth, just wrapped with Tulsi Gabbard, and look forward to my meetings with others soon,” Fetterman added.
“My votes will come from an open-mind and an informed opinion after having a conversation with them. That’s not controversial, it’s my job,” Fetterman concluded.
Fetterman already endorsed some Trump nominees.
Fetterman said he was highly likely to vote to confirm Marco Rubio to serve as Trump’s Secretary of State.
And Fetterman also gave an enthusiastic endorsement to Elise Stefanik to serve as the Ambassador to the United Nations.
Fetterman cited Stefanik’s work in exposing the pro-Hamas takeover of the United Nations Relief program as to why he would vote to confirm Stefanik.
“Always was a hard YES for @EliseStefanik but it was a pleasure to have a conversation. I support defunding UNRWA for its documented Hamas infiltration and fully look forward to her holding the @UN accountable for its endemic antisemitism and blatant anti-Israel views,” Fetterman wrote on social media.
But Fetterman could be creating more problems for himself on the Left.
The left-wing base hates Trump, hates his nominees, and supports Hamas.
Fetterman is crossing all three lines by voting for any of Trump’s cabinet picks.
In a Presidential Primary, this will surely come back to haunt Fetterman.
And if Fetterman runs for re-election, he will surely face a Primary challenger from the Ilhan Omar-Rashida Tlaib-wing of the party.
