Republicans Trying To Get Dem Senator To Switch Parties
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Could Senator John Fetterman become a Republican?
Republicans are trying to get him to switch parties.
According to a report from Politico, Trump offered him an endorsement if he did switch.
The political environment is curdling for Republicans, and the quiet campaign to lure Fetterman across the aisle is underway.
Trump has made the sell, offering his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian. A handful of Senate Republicans are also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party, multiple high-level GOP officials tell me.
If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley.
But the first-term Democrat — who’s infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president’s ballroom — isn’t yet persuaded.
Fetterman has said he is not switching parties.
He recently called out his own party.
He said, “It’s like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE and now turning it into like an orgy of socialism here.”
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned against what he called a “small communist takeover” within his own party during an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” Criticizing far-left groups involved in May Day protests, Fetterman described the current state of activism as an “orgy of socialism.”
“It’s like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE and now turning it into like an orgy of socialism here,” Fetterman said Friday.
The Pennsylvania senator noted that while he supports the labor unions May Day is traditionally meant to celebrate, he believes recent demonstrations have strayed too far from the intended mission.
“I am an absolutely proud pro-union Democrat, but the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them. That is the worst impulses that our party continues,” he said.
