Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) warned people that VP Kamala Harris doesn’t have an easy road in Pennsylvania.
Fetterman made the comments at the 2024 Atlantic Festival on Thursday:
“Trump has created a special kind of hold within the coronet he’s remade – the party – and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania, and I think that only deepened after the first assassination attempt,” Fetterman said.A deranged gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. The shooting, which Trump miraculously survived with only a wound on the side of his head, sharpened support among his die-hard base.”I also want people to understand, you know, and it’s not science, but there is, there’s energy and there are kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania — and people are very committed and strong,” Fetterman said Thursday. “And I joked that his signs became like the state flower – and you see that everywhere.”—Fetterman expressed skepticism of Harris’ reported lead in Pennsylvania on Thursday, comparing the situation to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s seven-point lead in Pennsylvania that ultimately collapsed on Election Day during her failed 2016 presidential bid.”Everybody thought that it was in the bag, but that’s not the energy and the other kinds of things that were really consistent with what I’m witnessing all across,” Fetterman recalled. “And then, sadly, we saw what happened.””People understand who he is and what he’s about, and enough people think that that’s the feature, and it’s not a bug,” he added.
I lost all faith in polls after 2016.
A WaPo poll has Harris at 48% and Trump at 47%.
The New York Times poll claims that Harris leads with 50% of the voters, and Trump only has 46%.
Fetterman also reiterated his support for Israel and the destruction of Hamas. He has been one of the most robust and most consistent voices on the left, refusing to bend the knee in the face of anti-Israel/pro-Hamas mobs.
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