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Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman Has argued that his party’s 2024 presidential candidate kamala harris “The plot was lost” when he called the President. donald trump A “fascist” during last year’s race.
Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday, Fetterman accused his partner democrat Doubling down the losing strategy by continuing comparisons with Trump Adolf Hitler – As Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker did last week – By demanding for: “What’s going on? Why did they choose that path when they didn’t succeed the first time?”
He said, “I don’t know why, and I’ve always refused to say so.” “When Vice President Harris called President Trump a ‘fascist,’ I knew we had completely lost on that point.
“If you call the President or anyone a fascist, you are effectively calling the people who are going to vote for them [the same thing] And then they’ll also be fascists… or they support fascism and those things. And this is not true.
“I know and love a lot of people who voted for president and they’re not fascists, they’re not Nazis, they’re not trying to destroy the Constitution and all those things. They just have different priorities and they love our country the same way the Democrats do.”
senator made one common point Manu Raju on CNN internal politics Last month he said of Trump: “You never compare anyone to Hitler. This is not a dictator. This is the result of a democratic election.”
In his Hannity interview, Fetterman argued that such inflammatory rhetoric leads to incidents such as the assassination of the founder of Turning Point USA. charlie kirk,
Harris actually responded on the CNN Town Hall program last year, when moderator Anderson Cooper asked if she considered Trump a “fascist”: “Yes, I do. Yes, I do.” Later in the same program the Democrat said his opponent “admires dictators” and “is a fascist.”
Harris also cited comments made the new York Times The president’s own former chief of staff, retired US Marine Corps General John F. Kelly, alleged that Trump had repeatedly complained that US military leaders were not as loyal to him as Nazi generals were to Hitler.
That said, Trump also called Harris a “fascist” during the campaign – on several occasions, in fact, CNN was able to do so. Compile them into a montage,
Democrats have reportedly become concerned about Fetterman’s lean to the right, leading him to join Truth Social in an attempt to find common ground with the president’s MAGA movement. Approving many of Trump’s more controversial Cabinet nomineesAnd attending his inauguration.
axios It was reported last week that top Democrats Primary Fetterman Planning in 2028 to ensure someone more aligned with his priorities in Pennsylvania, a key swing state every election year.
After Representative Brandon Boyle, Chris DeLuzio, and former Representative Conor Lamb were named as potential challengers, Fetterman reacted angrily to the story, accusing its writers of pursuing “clickbait”.
senator, who is reportedly Was health issueshas not yet definitively announced his re-election bid, and reportedly doesn’t care for life in Washington, D.C.
He has also struggled to raise campaign funds for some time and has reported Just under $330,000 In the third quarter of the year. This is the third consecutive quarter in which they have spent more than they raised Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
The total amount brought in by Fetterman was the lowest since February 2021, when he first announced his candidacy for office. The journey ended with defeating TV doctor Dr. Mehmet OzWho became Trump’s administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
A Quinnipiac University Survey The list released October 1 shows Fetterman with an 8-point net job approval rating, an improvement from the January survey in which the senator received a 3-point rating.
However, his overall approval rating is higher among Republicans (41 points) than among Democrats (21 points). In January, he had a 70-point net approval rating with his own party and a 59-point rating with the opposition.