Fetterman Scoffs at Primary Challenge, Reiterates Israel Support Amid Dem Infighting
“I guarantee whoever they put up, they’re going to make me look the reasonable guy that’s going to work with both sides together and find a way for Pennsylvania.”
The strained relationship between the woketivist wing, establishment Democrats, and the few moderate-ish ones left continues to play out after eight Senate Democrats broke ranks to vote with Republicans to commence with ending the Schumer Shutdown earlier this month.
With the likes of possible Schumer 2028 primary challenger Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) railing against those Senate Democrats for allegedly agreeing to a reopen deal “in exchange for nothing,” some of those Democrats are out there pushing back against the criticisms while scoffing at the possibility of a primary challenge.
Among them has been Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), one of the few Democrats on the Senate side to vote with Republicans every time to reopen the government. This is something that prompted the Pennsylvania chapter of the Working Families Party to announce they were going to try to primary him in 2028:
We're primarying John Fetterman.
Last week, Fetterman once again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the U.S. Senate. pic.twitter.com/Wer1MDacWI
— PA Working Families 🐺 (@PAWorkFamilies) November 18, 2025
Fetterman sat down for a Fox News interview earlier this week, where he observed that it was likely that whoever his Democrat political opposition put up against him would undoubtedly make him “look the reasonable guy” in the race:
“Voting to keep our government open, that was a vote to make sure that 42 million Americans get their SNAP. And now we’re going to pay all these people, like the military and the Capitol Police and all of those folks now, too,” he added. “So now if they want to primary me … but my point, it’s like I’ve been on the side of common sense and I’ve always gonna put our country for party. And I think most people now realize that shutting our government down was wrong.”
Watch:
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) TROLLS his party for threatening to primary him: “Oh, oh — I hope promise. I hope so because I guarantee whoever they put up, they will make me look, you know, a reasonable guy.”
“Voting to keep our government open. That was a vote to make sure that… pic.twitter.com/vF7CrQLvM5
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) November 21, 2025
During the interview, Fetterman also reiterated his support for Israel, noting that the socialists in the Democratic Party, like NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, were being “absurd and arrogant” with talk of things like observing “international law” and vowing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on behalf of the International Criminal Court, which the U.S. doesn’t recognize.
Proclamations like that, Fetterman stated, only galvanized him to support Israel even more:
As for the demands of the Democratic Socialists of America, such as having Mamdani divest from Israel, ban Israeli products and arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York City, Fetterman said they were “absurd and arrogant” and “empty kinds of threats.”
Fetterman allowed that some in his party are “becoming more and more anti-Israel,” but that solidifies his staunch support for Israel.
“That just affirms me that’s a signal to just lean in harder and be very proud to stand with Israel because that’s our key ally,” he said.
Watch:
Sen John Fetterman Calls Out Democratic Socialists of America
Martha MacCallum: “These are the demands. Divest from Israel. Ban Israeli products in city-run grocery stores. End NYPD training with ‘Israeli occupation forces,’ and arrest the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu if he… pic.twitter.com/8VXAIjouF9
— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) November 21, 2025
At another point, Fetterman pointed out that “In increasingly polarizing times, I just want to be normal, and I just want to have common sense.”
Watch:
Sen John Fetterman Stands By Normal Common Sense Politics
“In increasingly polarizing times I just want to be normal, and I just want to have common sense."https://t.co/2UTte6Rnm4 https://t.co/tqj1IlhvhL pic.twitter.com/trwWiy3PUQ
— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) November 21, 2025
As for that Working Families Party primary challenge, they don’t have a candidate just yet, but they do have a candidate recruitment page on their website.
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The term “working” as used by democrats always pisses me off. First of all their constituency is the NON working poor. They don’t care a lick about either the working poor or the (also working) middle class. We’ll leave their millionaire and billionaire hedge fund managers, lawyers, entertainers, union bosses, technocrats and others for another time.
Secondly, they don’t think either the middle class or the rich work. It’s like some Santa just hands money to them, probably based upon white privilege, while they just laze around doing nothing. It used to piss me off. When I worked I worked damn hard. No one gave me anything, and yet I knew the democrats never considered me as a working person.
Fetterman has the right idea. The farthest left wing of the party will just put up a socialist. Fetterman will win if he can get enough people out to vote, especially the independents. A low vote will favor the socialist because its a state wide election in an off year when only the committed (and they should be) will typically come out to vote.
The richest people in Congress are Democrats.
“I guarantee whoever they put up, they’re going to make me look the reasonable guy that’s going to work with both sides together and find a way for Pennsylvania.”
He’e absolutely right… but he says it like he believes that matters to any voter in his party.
glad I stocked up on pop corn
this is fun … waiting to see
who they run against him.
he has more sense then some GOP
members …
If I was a R in Pennsylvania, I would vote in the primary for this guy..heck I might vote for him in the general as well.