Liberals Plot To Oust Fetterman After He Bucks Dems, Backs Trump
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman continues to defy the political establishment, breaking with Democratic leadership and finding common ground with President Donald Trump — a stance that could soon spark a major challenge from within his own party.
Axios reported that several prominent Pennsylvania Democrats, including Rep. Brendan Boyle, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and former Rep. Conor Lamb, are being floated as possible primary challengers to Fetterman in 2028, when his Senate seat is up for re-election, The Daily Mail reported.
When asked about those reports, Fetterman brushed off the question. “Enjoy your clickbait!” he told an Axios reporter, before adding, “Please do not contact.”
Despite the speculation, Fetterman has given no indication that he’s concerned. Axios also noted that people close to him say he has long harbored presidential ambitions and sees himself as a national voice in the reshaping of the Democratic Party.
During a recent appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Fetterman expressed support for President Trump’s peace deal between Israel and Hamas, saying he felt “absolute elation” over the breakthrough. His praise stood in stark contrast to many of his Democratic colleagues, who have been reluctant to credit Trump for his foreign policy achievements.
Fetterman said his willingness to think independently often leaves him feeling politically isolated in the Senate.
“Regardless of what the base might want … I think it’s the right thing,” he told Bartiromo. “My kinds of positions are reasonable, because I’m not going to follow just the party line. I’m going to think independently.”
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That sentiment has become a defining feature of Fetterman’s tenure in Washington. In an earlier interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, he urged Democrats to lower the temperature of their rhetoric toward Trump and his supporters.
“I think you just don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things,” he said. “Trump is not an autocrat.”
Fetterman went on to reference the recent assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, calling for unity amid a volatile political climate.
“Now, look what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, the man was shot. We have to turn the temperature down,” Fetterman said. “This is not an autocrat. This is a product of a democratic election.”
Fetterman’s increasingly independent posture has made him both a maverick and a lightning rod. On DailyMail+’s Power List of top Democrats released this summer, Fetterman ranked seventh overall — just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders — despite his frequent breaks with party leadership.
He has also publicly clashed with top Democrats over the ongoing federal government shutdown. Fetterman was one of only three non-Republicans to vote for the GOP’s temporary funding package before the shutdown began and later blamed his own party for the impasse.
“Shutting the government is really what the Democratic Party wants to do,” Fetterman said during a NewsNation town hall at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday. “[Obamacare subsidies were] designed by the Democratic Party to expire … This is not something taken by the Republicans.”
Fetterman’s political independence helped define his 2022 campaign, when he defeated Republican Mehmet Oz with 51.17 percent of the vote after beating Conor Lamb by more than a 2-to-1 margin in the Democratic primary.
When asked recently by reporter Tara Palmeri about whether Democrats can win back White working-class men like himself, Fetterman didn’t sugarcoat his response.
“I don’t know,” he said. “And truthfully, I’m not sure if that’s possible, to be honest.”
