Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman might want to trade in his black hoodie for an elephant badge if he wants to keep his seat in the Senate: New polling suggests that he could find friendlier terrain on the Republican side of the aisle than among the Democrats who elected him.
According to a shocking poll from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a>, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College, Fetterman has become a complete outcast in his own party. The survey reveals Fetterman is underwater at a brutal -41 approval rating with Democrats, while boasting a staggering +52 favorability rating with Republicans.
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Fetterman is -41 with Democrats and +52 with Republicans, per the new NYT/Philly Inquirer/Siena poll. <a href="https://t.co/mIcEUqQnbc">pic.twitter.com/mIcEUqQnbc</a>
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The jaw-dropping numbers come as Fetterman continues a high-profile, scorched-earth streak against his own party’s hard-Left wing, positioning himself as a moderate willing to lock arms with Republicans on key national security, energy, and foreign policy battles.
Fetterman’s rift with the Left was on full display when he <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/23/us-news/fetterman-sides-with-trump-on-ai-national-security-push-with-chinese-warning/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">slammed</a> &#8220;AI doomsdaying&#8221; last week, aligning himself with President Donald Trump’s aggressive stance on artificial intelligence and data centers to counter China. Fetterman publicly rejected &#8220;political pandering and hyperbole over data centers,&#8221; taking aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who wants a stop on AI development, which Fetterman blasted as a &#8220;China First&#8221; policy.
Fetterman has also ripped into Sanders over his support for controversial figures. In July, he referred to Sanders’ support for former Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, snapping, “I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator — more than anyone he helped [to] elect — and now apologize to the victims, especially the woman that she claimed that he raped her, so I don&#8217;t know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people. Maybe he should consider [sitting] a few out and stop pushing these kinds of communists, and now people like P. Hustle. Now he has been credibly accused of rape — and that&#8217;s fairly recent, too, that was only less than five years ago.&#8221;
Fetterman’s willingness to cross party lines isn&#8217;t new. He previously made waves by <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1980710809916567915">backing</a> Republicans in carving out the filibuster to end a government shutdown. Fetterman also noted that Left-leaning networks like MS NOW stopped booking him once he began speaking out against his party&#8217;s consensus, while conservative outlets welcomed his no-nonsense style.
The biggest breaking point, however, remains foreign policy. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399969120112">Appearing</a> on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Hannity,&#8221; Fetterman declared there was one thing that could push him straight out of the Democratic Party: if anti-Israel hostility officially becomes part of the party platform. Fetterman warned that &#8220;rank antisemitism&#8221; is being allowed to flourish on the far-Left and on college campuses. He remains the only Senate Democrat to vote against every Iran war-powers resolution this year.
In July, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was asked, “Senator Fetterman has indicated that if Democrats officially become anti-Israeli, he would leave the party. Have you had any conversations with him about maybe joining the GOP conference, and would you welcome him if he were to follow that path?”
Thune replied, &#8220;Yes, we would welcome him. I haven&#8217;t talked to him recently. I have had conversations with him in the past, as have many of my colleagues, about the challenges he faces in his caucus. There are many of us who I think would welcome the opportunity to have him join the Republican conference but you know ultimately that&#8217;s a decision that&#8217;s left up that&#8217;s up to him.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this is a party that&#8217;s moving further and further, more radically, and to the more extreme Left on a lot of issues,&#8221; Thune added. &#8220;And I think people like John Fetterman, who have views that probably reflect a more moderate or at least historically moderate Democrat position, are really kind of people without a home. So if he ever comes to the conclusion that he&#8217;s ready to move, we would certainly welcome it.&#8221;

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Senator John Fetterman, the last rational human in the Democratic Party, said he didn’t think it was his job to come together with somebody who thinks that America basically deserved 9/11.
He was speaking of Michigan Democratic senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed campaigning with Hasan Piker, who literally said that America deserved 9/11.
Fetterman was asked by Wolf Blitzer, “How should members of your party, the Democratic Party, come together to defeat the Republican candidate?”
Fetterman answered, “I can&#8217;t come together with someone if you are willing to embrace people that love Hamas or that think America deserved 9/11.”
Fetterman did win a very competitive race in Pennsylvania, yet his own party is ready to go after him because he is pro-Israel.
Fetterman has voted with the Democrats on every economic matter. He simply doesn&#8217;t want to break the filibuster or destroy Israel.
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And this is why El-Sayed wants his head “on a pike.”
That is a direct quote. El-Sayed said during a Zoom call:
<blockquote>And that&#8217;s the best thing about the way they&#8217;re doing this is if I win, you&#8217;re just like, well, you all came at me, so now I get to come at you and primary people like John Fetterman. I have no problem with that. Like, I&#8217;m looking forward to it. And people are like, “Oh, we don&#8217;t primary in the Senate.”
Like, watch me do it. You know what I mean? Like, tell me, tell me why I should stop. I mean, you&#8217;re gonna spend 60 million to beat me, two can play at that game, you know what I mean? So, you know, and then what happens is, ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different.</blockquote>
And here’s a shocker: Jon Stewart also blamed Fetterman. That’s because all Jon Stewart cares about — because he&#8217;s such a partisan hack — is the maintenance of the Democratic coalition.
It turns out that coalition includes people who — if they had a shot and were in a foreign country — would behead Jon Stewart because he is a Jew.
But that doesn&#8217;t matter to Jon Stewart, whose willful ignorance about all of this is incredible. 
It should be noted that Jon Stewart is as Jewish as a ham sandwich, the same as Bernie Sanders. He doesn&#8217;t practice Judaism. He has no relationship with Judaism. He doesn&#8217;t care about Judaism. He doesn&#8217;t care about Israel. He doesn&#8217;t care about any Jewish principles.
He just puts on the Jew hat every so often so that he can claim to speak in the name of the Jews while excusing antisemitism or Islamism.
So he attacked Fetterman: “Why are you blaming them when in some ways you could be blaming yourself and your colleagues?”
“I&#8217;m not blaming. I&#8217;m describing here where we’re at and what&#8217;s happening,” Fetterman answered. “When we have people winning elections, saying absurd kinds of positions that were absolutely toxic back in 2020 — stop saying these kinds of extreme things that are not workable in the real world. Don&#8217;t we want to win?”
Meanwhile, another person born a Jew, but not really a Jew, Bernie Sanders, is out there saying that you have to ride or die with people who say that America deserved 9/11.
He was asked, “Piker has said America deserved 9/11. Are you comfortable with that association?”
“No, I am not. I think that&#8217;s a dumb statement,” Sanders responded, but then added, “On the other hand, he has a whole lot of followers, and there&#8217;s a lot of things that he&#8217;s saying that are making sense to a lot of people. I think, you know, we have to get above cancel culture. You know, when you&#8217;re doing radio, whatever they do, podcasts three hours a day, you say dumb things. I suspect if you go back over your career, there may be one or two things that you said that you may have regretted. But I think what we have got to do is look at the totality of where people are coming from and go forward.”
It&#8217;s all about the coalition, the “big tent.”
Sanders is the moral leader of the Democratic Party at this point.
Meanwhile, Piker says that everyone who doesn&#8217;t vote for El-Sayed is Islamophobic.
This is always the last resort, the cheap last resort of people who wish to take advantage of America&#8217;s tolerance and our free systems in order to try to rip those things down.
Piker is the guy who literally wore the uniform of Chairman Mao, one of the great mass murderers in all of history.
He lectured Americans about “Islamophobia”: “Like everyone being like ‘Abdul has a ton of work to do mending bridges.’ Here&#8217;s the f*cking take for you: You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of sh*t. You literally called the dude a terrorist for months on end and like, called him a sexist, misogynist, terrorist, bad candidate, fake doctor when he has, like two f*cking degrees and now you&#8217;re going to sit there and be like, ‘Well, you know, you&#8217;ve really got to come to me now.’ Like, what are you talking about? Do you want to f*cking win or not? Lock the f*ck in.”
If you take this garbage seriously or take this person seriously, you&#8217;re a moron.
Hearing him fume about people saying that El-Sayed is pro-terrorism when he’s the guy who is pro-terrorism and campaigning next to him is really remarkable.
But the biggest issue here is not Piker. It&#8217;s not even El-Sayed.
It is the Democratic Party that is willing to do literally anything to maintain its presence on the national stage, including fellow-traveling with people like El-Sayed.
Their “big tent” is now Islamized.

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) unloaded on a reporter from radical outlet Drop Site News, claiming that the outlet was actively participating in a race to see who could be the most pro-Hamas.
Fetterman, when approached by a reporter in a Capitol Hill hallway, immediately asked him to identify the outlet he was representing — and upon learning that it was Julian Andreone from Drop Site News, the Pennsylvania senator immediately started questioning him about who funded them.
Andreone introduced himself, and Fetterman immediately asked, &#8220;Who are you with?&#8221;
&#8220;Drop Site News,&#8221; Andreone replied.
&#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re Drop Site!&#8221; Fetterman exclaimed. &#8220;Oh! Now it&#8217;s like a race between who&#8217;s the more pro-Hamas, Drop Site or Zeteo. So now I got both. Hi! Hi, everybody, yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you mind if I ask you a question really quick?&#8221; Andreone asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s about —&#8221;
&#8220;I want your viewers to see how much I love to watch Israel eliminating the Hamas leadership,&#8221; Fetterman interrupted. &#8220;I know that upsets a lot of your viewers and a lot of your founders. But I think it&#8217;s a great thing.&#8221;
&#8220;So, President Trump —&#8221; Andreone attempted to ask a question, but Fetterman filibustered.
&#8220;So there&#8217;s no news coming out of me. I&#8217;m going to always back Israel. The question is, where does your trash outlet come from and who&#8217;s funding it? And if you think —&#8221;
&#8220;46,000 individual donors,&#8221; Andreone insisted.
&#8220;Your founders think it&#8217;s appropriate to attack and kill Israeli civilians. That&#8217;s really — that should be the news overall,&#8221; Fetterman said, referencing Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahill, who recently attempted to get <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2077101764277399717">Rep. Ro Khanna</a> (D-CA) to say that the October 7 Hamas-perpetrated attacks on Israeli soldiers may have been &#8220;justified.&#8221; In addition, he argued that the Hamas attackers were specifically targeting Israeli soldiers and that civilians had only been caught in the crossfire.
Scahill also claimed at another time that it was &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DQUmws3jrGA/">journalistic malpractice</a>&#8221; for Western outlets to not seek out conversations with Hamas terrorists — to whom he refers as the &#8220;Palestinian armed resistance&#8221; — when covering conflicts in the Middle East.
&#8220;Now you&#8217;re sticking a microphone in my face,&#8221; Fetterman continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s not any news here. I think the question is why does Drop Site love Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah so much? I think that&#8217;s really, I think that&#8217;s the news. I mean, are you OK with taking your paycheck from these kind of people?&#8221;
&#8220;Are you okay with Prime Minister Netanyahu being in the United States?&#8221; Andreone tried one more time to get a question in.
&#8220;I&#8217;m okay,&#8221; Fetterman replied, and with the dramatic timing of Robert Duvall delivering the line, &#8220;I love the smell of napalm in the morning,&#8221; the Pennsylvania senator got five words in just as the elevator door closed behind him: &#8220;I love killing Hamas leadership.&#8221;

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The state and mood of Washington, D.C. this week are a combination of dire and surreal. The surreal came in the form of the funeral for Lindsey Graham, a rare politician of actual note in this day and age of politicos who are good at winning elections, toeing the line, and remaining consistently unrecognizable as having any effect on national policy. (Did you know that Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) has been in office since Princess Diana was still alive? Wild.)
The event was, as is typical for the nation&#8217;s capital city, reduced to a pathetic networking session of smiles and handshakes between journos and politicians, lawyers and lobbyists, with the additional Kremlinology of who got to sit where and why. Everyone was on their phones between songs of generic holiness, stuck to the uncomfortable confines of worn brown National Cathedral chairs in the purportedly religious house that has the acoustics of a Wawa and whose respect for holiness is embodied by the head of <a href="https://cathedral.org/discover/fun-facts/">Darth Vader</a> perched atop its Northwest Tower, as predicted by the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Luke%2019:40">Gospel of Luke</a>. For this, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) wore a suit?
What was remarkable about the Graham funeral was how little resemblance it bore to the man it claimed to honor. Instead, it was a tribute isolated to a single relationship confined to the last seven years of Graham’s 31-year career in Washington: his political friendship with President Donald Trump. It was a connection built on Graham’s belief that, in the absence of his longtime foreign policy allies John McCain and Joe Lieberman, he had to make the best of things — becoming a quarterback whisperer in an offensive scheme he never thought he’d have to run. The decision reaped benefits, for Graham and for Trump — the former an old hand at driving policy in the Republican conference, the latter a political neophyte who didn’t know whom to trust or how to move legislation beyond a Truth Social post.
The tributes from the front of the Cathedral focused on an appeal to the Commander-in-Chief in the front row and left his longtime friends unmentioned. The program wasn’t marked by any of his longtime political allies from his home in South Carolina. Take the world leaders out of the equation in the attending crowd, and it could’ve been a funeral for any Republican senator. The oddity of it all is that, unlike so many others, Graham’s absence is likely to be immediately felt, and felt the most by Trump’s White House, whose relationship with Capitol Hill, already strained with contention and resentment, is only going to get worse.
The following day brought another insult to holiness with the circus of the Anthony Fauci hearing. The fish in the barrel claimed the Fifth the entire time, and senators expressed their undying love and affection (on the Democratic side) and their utter contempt for his lying, self-dealing, and pompous assumption of the seat of the Pope of Science. Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) blond gum-chewing staffer went viral. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) channeled the fury of millions of Americans. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said a swear word. None of this will be of any consequence.
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This is where Republicans find themselves: looking back in anger, without delivering anything of substance. They’re still fighting the last war. Democrats are crazy socialists who haven’t stopped being crazy; in fact, they’ve gotten even crazier. But that’s not good enough to win, despite the insistence of too-online right-wingers that they can run that play back one more time to buck decades of historical midterm trends. Four in 10 voters say they want “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-want-major-change-amid-economic-political-discontent">revolutionary</a>” change from this election. Do you think they care about people movers at Washington Dulles Airport? Do you think they give a sh*t if James Talarico rents a truck?
That brings us to the dire mood in the capital city. House Republicans had already been planning their exit strategy and shopping for their next homes and jobs. Senate Republicans have only just noticed that they are headed in the same direction: off a cliff, at rapid speed. President Trump’s approval rating is 33% in the latest AP poll. Democratic Senate candidates currently lead in North Carolina and Georgia — where Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has promised to spend an enormous amount of cash — and are within the margin of error in Ohio and Texas, which were supposed to be red states the last time we checked. Every bout at the White House’s UFC sideshow ended in a knockout. This may not even be that close.
The realization on the eve of August that the blue tidal wave could hit the Senate, too, has come too late to do much about the outcome except bitch about the damn war. And what comes after? We all know what it looks like for D.C.: committee circuses, impeachment of Cabinet figures, and lawfare targeting the president’s family and allies to a degree that will make the Joe Biden years look sleepy and innocuous. For the Left? A dramatically emboldened socialist wing, with the force multiplier of eager and willing new entrants from safe seats, all looking to make a national name for themselves. And for the Right? Two years of vindictive bloodletting and horror, blame and revisionism, and a level of factional strife that will have the city turning back to all the old &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; episodes, lacking as we are in newer references in the post-peak TV era.
The Republican Party was emboldened by Donald Trump’s victory in 2024. But from election night on, it made the mistake of thinking that victory for the Right was fundamental. It may turn out to be the exception before the Left&#8217;s new and dangerous rule. Buckle up.

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One Democrat senator admitted to being &#8220;blinded&#8221; by his own political assumptions during the COVID-19 pandemic as Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a Senate Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman confessed he regrets allowing political partisanship to influence his rejection of the &#8220;Right-wing theory&#8221; that COVID came from the Wuhan lab in China during the early days of the pandemic. Fetterman said the so-called lab leak theory, which was branded as a conspiracy by the legacy media, had “seemed to make sense,” but added that it “became a very partisan thing.” 
“Early on, there was the theory that the virus could have emerged from the lab, and early on that became like a ‘Right-wing&#8217; kind of theory and I thought it seemed to make sense,” said Fetterman. “Now there was a really advanced lab that was close by, and then you have this unknown virus out. But that became a very partisan thing, and now it seems now it&#8217;s a more and more emerging theory that it would have come from the lab.” 
Fetterman, who was uncharacteristically dressed in a suit at the hearing, said he hopes the next time America faces a crisis, it is not “blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that&#8217;s different that you are,&#8221; as he “might have been” blinded.  
&#8220;Americans should be willing to pursue truth no matter where that may have emerged,” said Fetterman.   
Fetterman was the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania throughout the COVID pandemic and worked alongside Democratic Governor Tom Wolf and trans-identifying Secretary of Health Rachel Levine to implement some of the most draconian mitigation policies in the nation, including extended school closures and forcing senior citizens to die alone in nursing homes. 
Fetterman adamantly supported Wolf and Levine’s policies, including a <a href="https://lvb.com/dr-rachel-levine-issues-expanded-mask-wearing-order/">universal masking mandate</a> that required children as young as 2 years old to be masked whenever leaving home. He also <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/fetterman-on-rising-coronavirus-cases-in-pa/">begged</a> Pennsylvanians to “just wear a mask” in a November 2020 video. Wolf implemented a <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/12/no-more-indoor-dining-casinos-and-theaters-will-close-and-new-limits-on-retailers-pa-gov-tom-wolf.html">second lockdown</a> in Pennsylvania in December 2020 that extended to January 2021 and further devastated local businesses during the holiday season.   
Fetterman noted during the hearing that members of his family had died from COVID and also said he grieves for people who lost their businesses due to pandemic decisions and will “never be the same.”  
&#8220;During the pandemic I was lieutenant governor so we were in the middle of all of that maelstrom, trying to find the right balance between protect life and protect the economics of all of it,&#8221; said Fetterman. “I&#8217;m not sure if we got it all right or wrong, but without a doubt I continue to question myself.” 
Fetterman is an outspoken supporter of transgenderism and supports the inclusion of men in women’s sports. In a March 2025 post on <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1896728606812028954?s=46&amp;t=ZAoIkqhiKpZyQayFV_2XbQ">X,</a> Fetterman wrote, “The small handful of trans athletes in PA in a political maelstrom deserve an ally, and I am one.”

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) called out Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), arguing that he was part of the push to elevate embattled Maine Democrat Graham Platner.
Platner, who is Maine&#8217;s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, has faced a litany of scandals since he entered the race — from a Nazi-inspired tattoo and dubious social media history to multiple accusations of troubling behavior and even rape. Fetterman told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday that Sanders ought to apologize for so aggressively pushing Platner.
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Ingraham noted that almost across the board — with few exceptions, of which Fetterman was one — the Democratic Party had been all too willing to ignore the questionable items in Platner&#8217;s history, and she asked whether any of them should be held responsible for the ensuing situation.
&#8220;I refused to overlook that,&#8221; Fetterman replied. &#8220;But honestly, I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator — more than anyone he helped [to] elect — and now apologize to the victims, especially the woman that she claimed that he raped her, so I don&#8217;t know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe he should consider [sitting] a few out and stop pushing these kinds of communists, and now people like P. Hustle, now he has been credibly accused of rape — and that&#8217;s fairly recent, too, that was only less than five years ago,&#8221; Fetterman continued.
Fetterman has repeatedly challenged members of his own party over their support for Platner — and has argued that the scandals, even before the rape accusation, should have been disqualifying.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has a breaking point — and he laid it out bluntly in a Wednesday night <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399969120112">sit-down</a> with Sean Hannity on Fox News. The outspoken Pennsylvania Democrat said there&#8217;s exactly one thing that could push him out of his own party: if Democrats formally declared, as part of their party platform, that Israel has no right to defend itself or exist.
“For me, what my real concern is the Democratic Party is going to and put it into the platform, you know, is an anti-Israel party, that Israel does not have the right to defend itself and to exist,” he declared. “And the second that becomes a formal part of our platform, that&#8217;s the one thing that would push me out of this party because I&#8217;m deeply alarmed the way the Democratic party is going after Israel and allowing rank antisemitism to just flourish in the Left on the campuses as well.”
Fetterman pointed to Colorado Democrat Melat Kiros, a socialist who won her primary over a 15-term incumbent earlier this week. Kiros recently dodged questions about a firebombing attack on Jewish demonstrators rallying for hostages. She also said 9/11 was the result of American foreign policy and argued that October 7 was “the inevitable consequence of apartheid.” That kind of rhetoric, Fetterman warned, is becoming disturbingly common on the Left and on college campuses — and if it ever gets codified into official Democratic policy, he&#8217;s out.
The Hannity appearance is just the latest chapter in Fetterman&#8217;s increasingly public break from his party&#8217;s mainstream on foreign policy. In June, he <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/06/fetterman-warns-trump-iran-deal-nuclear/">warned</a> that President Donald Trump might be tempted to accept a watered-down nuclear deal with Iran, one that leaves Tehran&#8217;s uranium stockpile intact. Fetterman has been the only Senate Democrat to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-says-theres-one-thing-trump-cant-afford-to-do-on-iran?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Fetterman+Says+There%E2%80%99s+One+Thing+Trump+Can%E2%80%99t+Afford+To+Do+On+Iran">oppose</a> every Iran war-powers resolution this year, arguing the president shouldn&#8217;t have his hands tied while the Iranian threat persists. He&#8217;s repeatedly praised recent strikes on Iran&#8217;s regime as effective and necessary, comparing negotiations with Tehran to trying to <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602207153">reason with cancer</a>.
In April, Fetterman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-issues-ultimatum-to-dems-israel-or-raging-anti-semites-like-hasan-piker?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Fetterman+Issues+Ultimatum+To+Dems%3A+Israel%2C+Or+%E2%80%98Raging+Anti-Semites%E2%80%99+Like+Hasan+Piker">went after</a> leftist streamer Hasan Piker by name, branding him a dangerous antisemite for saying he&#8217;d side with Hamas over Israel and for dismissing the terror group&#8217;s record of violence against civilians as beside the point. Fetterman demanded the party publicly distance itself from Piker&#8217;s brand of politics.
Back in March, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/baffled-by-his-partys-response-fetterman-cheers-trump-israel-as-they-pummel-iran-love-it?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Baffled%E2%80%99+By+His+Party%E2%80%99s+Response%2C+Fetterman+Cheers+Trump%2C+Israel+As+They+Pummel+Iran%3A+%E2%80%98Love+It%21%E2%80%99">broke ranks again</a> to praise the Trump administration&#8217;s joint strikes with Israel against Iranian leadership, saying he was mystified why colleagues wouldn&#8217;t celebrate the elimination of regime figures responsible for decades of oppression.
And in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-daily-wire-sits-down-with-john-fetterman-who-doesnt-hear-from-democrats-anymore?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+Daily+Wire+Sits+Down+With+John+Fetterman%2C+Who+Doesn%E2%80%99t+Hear+From+Democrats+Anymor">November interview</a> with The Daily Wire, Fetterman admitted he&#8217;s become something of an outcast within his own caucus — not a single Senate Democrat, he said, reached out after he urged his party to accept blame for the government shutdown. He noted bitterly that MSNBC has gone quiet on booking him since he started breaking from the party line, while conservative outlets have welcomed him.
Fetterman insists he isn&#8217;t going independent or flipping parties — he still considers himself a &#8220;regular Democrat.&#8221; But between his hawkish stance on Israel and Iran, his border security views, and his shutdown criticism, he acknowledges he now finds himself lining up more with Republicans than with his own leadership.

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President Donald Trump and Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted &#8220;Dumocrat Communists&#8221; and the “dirt bag Left” after the success of democratic socialist candidates in New York’s U.S. House primaries on Tuesday. 
As all three socialist congressional candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their congressional primaries, Fetterman said war was being declared on “regular Democrats&#8221; and that his party was becoming increasingly out of step with the American people. 
“It&#8217;s just been the dancing days of the dirt bag Left with some of these candidates are outrageous,” Fetterman <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399220644112">said</a> in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “You have candidates they [want to] abolish ICE, abolish the police, abolish the border.”
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Far-Left Democrat socialists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier both declared victory in their respective primary races. Avila Chevalier is a self-described “prison abolitionist” and opposes deporting any illegal immigrants. 
“A lot of these candidates that very likely are going to win tonight, just declaring a war on just regular Democrats,” Fetterman said.
“They&#8217;re all socialists, of course, and now there&#8217;s a communist and now a Marxist,” he said. “We have P-Hustle in Maine. You know, that&#8217;s another one. He&#8217;s a self-avowed communist, too. Well, that&#8217;s not even looked down on, and it&#8217;s a significant part of the Democratic Party right now.”
“P-Hustle” was the username that Maine Democrat nominee Graham Platner used for years to post anti-Christian, vulgar, and sexual comments on social media. 
In addition to the victories of Valdez and Avila Chevalier, former New York comptroller Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman. 
President Donald Trump also reacted to the results from New York, writing on Truth Social early Wednesday morning, &#8220;America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!&#8221;
In another post Wednesday morning, Trump called out &#8220;Dumocrat Communists.&#8221;
&#8220;Even though he tried unsuccessfully to prosecute me, and despite the fact that he is a major Slimeball, I feel sorry for FORMER Congressman Dan Goldman. He is wandering aimlessly, together with the former husband of the great Kellyanne Conway, through a large field of Dumocrat Communists, trying so hard to find his way &#8211; A very sad finish for a man who has no clue, and never did!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116804998509920399">wrote</a>.
Fetterman added that his party has been taken over by the “full pro-Hamas wing.” He added that hate for Israel has become “the center of a lot of these primaries across the country, and definitely, definitely, what we&#8217;re witnessing in New York City.”
“Now that&#8217;s going to become the lesson that the Democratic Party is going to continue to be anti-Israel, and I&#8217;ll be the one that&#8217;s going to continue to lean in and be proud to stand with Israel,” Fetterman said. 
The results could prove to be troublesome for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) who endorsed the opponents of both Lander and Avila Chevalier. 
Reacting to the results, GOP spokesman Mike Marinella said that Americans should be “terrified.” 
“Tonight wasn’t just a bad night for so-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries,” he said. “It was the night the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party. Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots. And Americans should be terrified by where the Democrat Party is headed.”

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A bitter public feud between Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is exposing growing fractures within the Democratic Party as left-wing activists and establishment figures increasingly find themselves at odds ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The latest clash erupted Sunday when Platner, speaking at a town hall in Maine, referred to Fetterman with a profanity while discussing lawmakers he would potentially work alongside in Washington. &#8220;The Senate really is a place of relationships,&#8221; Platner <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/platner-calls-fetterman-a-hole-town-hall-democratic-feud-heats-up">told supporters</a>. &#8220;You can&#8217;t just go down there and be John Fetterman and just sort of be an a**hole.&#8221;
When audience members reacted, Platner doubled down, adding, &#8220;He&#8217;s said mean things about me, I&#8217;m allowed to say that.&#8221;
The comments marked the latest escalation in a war of words that has increasingly become a proxy battle over the future direction of the Democratic Party.
Fetterman has emerged as one of Platner&#8217;s most vocal Democratic critics in recent weeks, repeatedly attacking the Maine progressive over a growing list of controversies that have dogged his Senate campaign. The Pennsylvania senator has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/graham-platner-senate-democrats-maine">referred</a> to Platner as a &#8220;creeper,&#8221; questioned his past conduct, and accused fellow Democrats of overlooking behavior they would ordinarily condemn.
&#8220;What kind of a creeper has spent a decade on a platform like Kik, and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else?&#8221; Fetterman said during a recent CNN interview. In another appearance, Fetterman argued that Democrats were supporting Platner primarily because of party loyalty rather than enthusiasm for the candidate himself. &#8220;If they&#8217;d just be honest, they&#8217;d say, &#8216;Well, the only thing I can say about him is, well, he&#8217;s a Democrat,'&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/politics/video/fetterman-roasts-maines-dem-senate-candidate">said</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s not really technically a Democrat — in his own words, he said, &#8216;I&#8217;m a communist socialist.'&#8221;
Platner has fired back repeatedly, accusing Fetterman of abandoning progressive principles and aligning himself with more moderate and pro-Israel factions within the party. Over the weekend, Platner <a href="https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/2063395224592761326">wrote</a> on X that Fetterman had become &#8220;a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican Party,&#8221; highlighting one of the major ideological fault lines driving the dispute.
The increasingly personal nature of the conflict comes as Fetterman himself has become a controversial figure among many leftists due to his strong support for Israel, criticism of anti-Israel activists, and willingness to break with fellow Democrats on several high-profile issues.
While Democratic leaders have largely attempted to focus attention on defeating Republicans in November, the Fetterman-Platner fight underscores deeper tensions simmering beneath the surface. Those divisions pit an ascendant hard-left contingent that embraces democratic socialism and confrontational politics against more moderate Democrats who argue the party risks alienating voters through ideological purity tests and controversial candidates.
The dispute could also offer an early preview of broader battles expected to intensify ahead of the 2028 presidential election. As Democrats search for a post-Biden identity, competing factions within the party are increasingly wrestling over questions of ideology, messaging, foreign policy, and the type of candidates they want representing the party on the national stage.
For now, those disagreements are playing out in Maine, where Platner remains the heavy favorite to secure his party&#8217;s Senate nomination. But the increasingly public feud with Fetterman suggests that even if Democrats remain united against Republicans at the ballot box, unity within the party itself may prove far more difficult to maintain.
If Platner wins the nomination and advances to a general election showdown against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Democrats may face a difficult balancing act: defending a candidate embraced by the party&#8217;s left-wing grassroots while answering questions raised by one of their own sitting senators.

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) made it clear on Thursday that he would not be surprised to see more damaging information come out about Maine&#8217;s Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.
Fetterman, when asked whether he was &#8220;concerned&#8221; that Platner might be at the center of additional scandals, pointed out the fact that Platner — who assured Senate Democrats earlier in the week that there would be no additional allegations against him — had been dishonest about some of what had already been revealed.
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NEW: Senator John Fetterman slams fellow Democrat and embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner following a string of damaging personal controversies.
&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody. He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more… <a href="https://t.co/bacJZN8fl8">pic.twitter.com/bacJZN8fl8</a>
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&#8220;Are you concerned that there&#8217;s more to drop?&#8221; one reporter asked.
&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more other things. So he&#8217;s already lied about that.&#8221;
&#8220;So I assume, you know, it&#8217;s like they say, for every ranch you see in Texas, there&#8217;s 50 that you haven&#8217;t seen. So I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty — a lot of more ranches in P-Hustle&#8217;s life,&#8221; Fetterman added.
Platner, who went by the name &#8220;P-Hustle&#8221; on Reddit, has been the center of several scandals, ranging from his now-covered Nazi-inspired tattoo to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/platner-promises-dem-senators-there-will-be-no-new-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexually explicit</a> text messages sent to several women while he was married. He has also faced backlash for a number of comments he posted on Reddit — some of which were vulgar and at least one in which he mocked and derided a wounded combat veteran and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/didnt-deserve-to-live-leftist-candidate-appears-to-mock-wounded-soldier-in-resurfaced-post">Purple Heart recipient</a>.
The Maine Democrat, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-am-still-on-the-ballot-janet-mills-reappears-as-platner-stumbles">leading</a> Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) in the primary before she suspended her campaign, is set to face off against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November.

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‘He Lied To Everybody’: Fetterman Says Graham Platner Saga Isn’t Over

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is sounding the alarm that President Donald Trump may be on the verge of accepting a weak deal with Iran — one that fails to eliminate Tehran&#8217;s enriched uranium stockpile or guarantee the regime never acquires a nuclear weapon.
In an <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/06/fetterman-warns-trump-iran-deal-nuclear/">interview</a> with Jewish Insider, the Pennsylvania Democrat warned Trump that caving to political pressure at this critical moment would define his presidency for the worse.
&#8220;Presidents always talk about their legacy,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;At this point, if you cave just for political convenience, what kind of legacy is that?&#8221;
Over the past 90 days, Fetterman has been the sole Democrat to vote against every Iran war powers resolution in the Senate, arguing that executive military authority must not be constrained while the Iranian threat remains active. He has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fetterman-war-iran-been-effective/#:~:text=Pressed%20on%20whether%20the%20war,the%20kinds%20of%20appropriate%20outcome.%22">openly praised</a> the military campaign against Iran as &#8220;very effective&#8221; and moving toward an &#8220;appropriate outcome,&#8221; even while acknowledging the political cost of agreeing with Trump on anything.
His position on Iran has been unambiguous from the start. Before major strikes began, he <a href="https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/01/iran-protests-senate-fetterman-intervention-federal-government/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhy%20can't%20we%20all,right%20now%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20added.">publicly backed</a> armed intervention, saying, &#8220;Why can&#8217;t we all agree that Iran is a terrible force in our world, and why isn&#8217;t it better to help end their regime?&#8221; He compared negotiating with Tehran to <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602207153">negotiating with cancer</a> — impossible and naive. &#8220;You can&#8217;t negotiate with cancer,&#8221; he told Fox News. &#8220;You have to attack it and go right at it with superior force.&#8221;
He also questioned why the United States had waited so long to target Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, asking why anyone would hesitate to strike a stockpile of 900 pounds of near-weapons-grade uranium.
When U.S.-Israeli strikes killed top Iranian regime figures, including the supreme leader, Fetterman was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-p7OxpViwo">blunt in his approval</a>: &#8220;The world is safer, and it&#8217;s more just now,&#8221; he said, adding that having the top tier of the regime eliminated was &#8220;a good thing.&#8221;
Fetterman has framed the conflict as part of a broader civilizational struggle — and warned that a weak deal with Tehran could signal American retreat to adversaries in Beijing as well. &#8220;I hope after that silly visit to China that they aren&#8217;t now like, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;re going to turn our back on Taiwan,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;These are all fights for civilization and democracy &#8230; it&#8217;s [America&#8217;s] special responsibility to stand with these allies.&#8221;
Fetterman also turned his fire on fellow Democrats who pushed for a Gaza ceasefire in 2024, arguing their efforts would have left Iran&#8217;s nuclear program intact, Hezbollah armed, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar alive. &#8220;Where&#8217;s the outrage?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;It was politically convenient to try to push Israel into a position that would put Iran on the path to nuclear power.&#8221;

Fetterman Says There’s One Thing Trump Can’t Afford To Do On Iran

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Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman rebuked his party&#8217;s hypocrisy over foreign policy on Wednesday, saying Democrats have become the party of &#8220;Trump Derangement Syndrome.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMiKkhrGmWI">podcast interview with libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie</a>, Fetterman defended the Trump administration&#8217;s military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Asked whether he trusts war assessments from President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, the swing-state Democrat did not budge.
&#8220;100%, I trust the Trump administration, and Trump a hell of a lot more than I would ever trust the Iranians or the Chinese or the Russians,&#8221; Fetterman said, adding, &#8220;We are all Americans. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re forgetting. You know, the Democratic Party can&#8217;t become the TDS party. &#8230; And clearly that&#8217;s where we are right now.&#8221;  
&#8220;That does not mean you agree on every tactic that&#8217;s happened,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t appreciate the gamification of the Iranian war.&#8221;
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💥NEW: John Fetterman🇺🇸
“100% I trust the Trump administration and Trump a h*ll of a lot more than I would ever trust the Iranians, Chinese or Russians … We are all Americans.”
“The Democratic Party can’t become the TDS Party … And clearly that’s where we are right now.” <a href="https://t.co/7KvqfqoLCZ">pic.twitter.com/7KvqfqoLCZ</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2054627896061239625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2026</a></blockquote>
Fetterman also called out Democrats&#8217; foreign policy double standards.
&#8220;We have a nuclear power at the cusp, and it&#8217;s entirely appropriate to hold them accountable for what they&#8217;ve done,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;And clearly a lot of people in the world care and had strong opinions on Gaza, well then, why don&#8217;t you have the same kinds of views and condemn Iran too?&#8221;
Iran reportedly killed tens of thousands of its own citizens during a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests aimed at overthrowing the government.
&#8220;The same people that were outraged about the war in Gaza. They gave no f*cks about Iran executing 30,000, 40,000 of its young people. Zero college campuses,&#8221; Fetterman said. 
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💥NEW: John Fetterman: “The same people that were outraged about the war in Gaza, they gave no f*cks about Iran executing 30,000-40,000 of its young people.” <a href="https://t.co/JixRgkxldl">pic.twitter.com/JixRgkxldl</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2054631551409803487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2026</a></blockquote>
Fetterman has emerged as one of the most vocal pro-Israel voices in the Democratic Party since Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre. 
“What would drive people to care that much about Gaza and then not care about Iranian protesters being killed?” Gillespie asked Fetterman. 
“It’s because the rifles weren’t in Jewish hands,&#8221; Fetterman replied, calling out the &#8220;antisemitism&#8221; and &#8220;indoctrination&#8221; that has spread on American college campuses. &#8220;So, without a doubt, without a doubt, my party&#8217;s become intensely anti-Israel. And it&#8217;s strange to me the most progressive part of the American conversation, we won&#8217;t stand, and we will betray the one single nation in the region that has the kinds of values and lives the way it has.&#8221;
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💥NEW: Nick Gillespie: “What would drive people to care that much about Gaza and then not care about Iranian protesters being killed?”
John Fetterman: “It’s because the rifles weren’t in Jewish hands.” <a href="https://t.co/xzzLPSU646">pic.twitter.com/xzzLPSU646</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2054635909480403229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2026</a></blockquote>

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