{"id":8452,"date":"2025-10-19T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:00:55","slug":"liberals-plot-to-oust-fetterman-after-he-bucks-dems-backs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/liberals-plot-to-oust-fetterman-after-he-bucks-dems-backs-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Plot To Oust Fetterman After He Bucks Dems, Backs Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman continues to defy the political establishment, breaking with Democratic leadership and finding common ground with President Donald Trump \u2014 a stance that could soon spark a major challenge from within his own party.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about those reports, Fetterman brushed off the question. \u201cEnjoy your clickbait!\u201d he told an Axios reporter, before adding, \u201cPlease do not contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the speculation, Fetterman has given no indication that he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent appearance on Fox News\u2019 Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Fetterman expressed support for President Trump\u2019s peace deal between Israel and Hamas, saying he felt \u201cabsolute elation\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said his willingness to think independently often leaves him feeling politically isolated in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what the base might want \u2026 I think it\u2019s the right thing,\u201d he told Bartiromo. \u201cMy kinds of positions are reasonable, because I\u2019m not going to follow just the party line. I\u2019m going to think independently.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers this emotional message on stage:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they\u2019re NOT Nazis, they\u2019re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI REFUSE to call\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f9U8tnYlJy\">pic.twitter.com\/f9U8tnYlJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/1978624341903618424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That sentiment has become a defining feature of Fetterman\u2019s tenure in Washington. In an earlier interview with CNN\u2019s Manu Raju, he urged Democrats to lower the temperature of their rhetoric toward Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you just don\u2019t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things,\u201d he said. \u201cTrump is not an autocrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman went on to reference the recent assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, calling for unity amid a volatile political climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, look what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, the man was shot. We have to turn the temperature down,\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cThis is not an autocrat. This is a product of a democratic election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s increasingly independent posture has made him both a maverick and a lightning rod. On DailyMail+\u2019s Power List of top Democrats released this summer, Fetterman ranked seventh overall \u2014 just behind Sen. Bernie Sanders \u2014 despite his frequent breaks with party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s temporary funding package before the shutdown began and later blamed his own party for the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShutting the government is really what the Democratic Party wants to do,\u201d Fetterman said during a NewsNation town hall at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday. \u201c[Obamacare subsidies were] designed by the Democratic Party to expire \u2026 This is not something taken by the Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>When asked recently by reporter Tara Palmeri about whether Democrats can win back White working-class men like himself, Fetterman didn\u2019t sugarcoat his response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd truthfully, I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s possible, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman continues to defy the political establishment, breaking with Democratic leadership and finding common ground with President Donald Trump \u2014 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. 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