Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman knew he had a decision to make.
For Fetterman, the choice was obvious.
And John Fetterman went on The View and dropped this bombshell about changing parties.
John Fetterman says he’s not changing parties
After the election, Democrats noticed something odd about Fetterman.
Fetterman began making gestures to align himself with Donald Trump.
He was the first Democrat to make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.
He voiced support for Trump’s proposed acquisition of Greenland.
He voted for the Laken Riley Act.
And Fetterman even condemned the criminal trial Donald Trump faced in Manhattan as “bulls***.”
These whirlwind of actions by Fetterman led some in the political world to speculate that he saw he needed to run for re-election in 2028 in increasingly red Pennsylvania and decided switching parties was his only viable path to remaining in power.
Co-host Sunny Hostin confronted Fetterman over his “Rightward drift” when Fetterman showed up on the set of The View.
Hostin straight up asked Fetterman if he was joining the Republican Party.
“What do you say to those who are now, in a sense, questioning your commitment to the Democratic Party?” Hostin inquired.
Fetterman reassured Hostin that he was still a Democrat who believed 100 percent in the woke agenda and he was just making empty gestures to the Right.
“As for Rightward? That’s just . . . that just happens not to be true. I have been on record too saying I am not going to become a Republican, you know? Although maybe some people might be happy on one side, but I would make a pretty terrible Republican because, you know, pro-choice, pro-really strong immigration, pro-LGBTQ, you know, just pretty, like . . . I don’t think I would be a good fit,” Fetterman began.
Fetterman said he was remaining a Democrat come hell or high water and that his voting record was that of a down the line leftist.
“So I’m not going to change my party, and if I am going to do, I’m going to show up. I’ll give you the exclusive. I can announce. So I can’t keep chasing down every last thing that’s online because they just happen not to be true. Just look at my votes. Look at the things . . . I haven’t changed in a way,” Fetterman continued.
But Fetterman’s virtue signaling to the Right is working.
A new Morning Consult poll found Fetterman +11 overall on the favorable rating.
And in a reversal, independents now held a favorable view of Fetterman by an eight point margin, whereas Fetterman entered office in 2023 with more independents disapproving of him than approving.
New: @JohnFetterman has taken some heat from the left, but at home in Pennsylvania, he’s lost little support among Democrats and has widened his backing among voters in the middle and, notably, Republicans.
Much more: https://t.co/anDrhJFOHA
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— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) January 24, 2025
Fetterman calculated that he can gaslight the Center-Right electorate in Pennsylvania by making a few symbolic gestures of solidarity and that when the rubber meets the road – such as the vote on confirming Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense – he can vote in lockstep with the Democrat Party.
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