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Fetterman is not the Democratic answer to Trump
Washington Examiner ^ | March 4, 2025 | Zachary Faria

Posted on 03/16/2025 6:34:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been charting a course as a bit of a maverick among the Democratic Party. But when the chips are down, even he falls in line with the radical fringe of left-wing activists who run the party’s messaging.

HBO’s Bill Maher last week coronated Fetterman as the Democratic Party’s answer to President Donald Trump, specifically how Trump “bonds with everyday Americans because he talks like them.” Fetterman made his name as an Ivy League-educated man from a wealthy upbringing who LARPed as a working-class mayor. He has since carved out his current somewhat centrist path mostly by not acting like a frantic, hysterical Democrat like many of his colleagues.

Fetterman’s voting record remains reliably liberal, though, and Monday’s vote on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act showed his true colors. The Senate failed to pass the bill, which straightforwardly said, “To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

In other words, boys can’t play girls’ sports. This position is supported by nearly 80% of the country, including a whopping 67% of Democrats. You would be hard-pressed to find a cultural concern in our politics that has more overwhelming support than this.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: billmaher; johnfetterman; pennsylvania; zacharyfaria
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1 posted on 03/16/2025 6:34:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Dems should have been nicer to Tulsi Gabbard. Instead of making her their ally, she became their enemy.


2 posted on 03/16/2025 6:35:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And RFK Jr.


3 posted on 03/16/2025 6:36:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

President Shrek not going to happen


4 posted on 03/16/2025 6:41:17 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

It’s not like he’s gonna challenge Trump. More than likely he’ll try to get the hard left to calm down.


5 posted on 03/16/2025 6:47:53 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
More than likely he’ll try to get the hard left to calm down.

Good luck with that.

6 posted on 03/16/2025 6:48:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Which is a pipe dream at best.


7 posted on 03/16/2025 6:51:25 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Along with Elon Musk.


8 posted on 03/16/2025 6:51:40 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican
In January 2028, both John Fetterman and Gavin Newsom will be doing a center-left imitation of Bill Clinton.

The Democratic Party news media will have total amnesia about their Radical Left 2024-2025 political earthquake.

9 posted on 03/16/2025 6:53:48 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fetterman has a good chance to win the presidency in 2028. Trump was very fortunate to have such unlikable opponents. All Fetterman has to do is appear as a centrist...what Obama did. And Fetterman won’t be going against Trump.


10 posted on 03/16/2025 6:55:03 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2.0 is a much needed miracle.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Fetterman is not the Democratic answer to Trump”

good ... that means the Dems have no answer to Trump, no charismatic leader who appeals to the masses and who can lead the Democrats out of the desert ...

so far, they have a bunch of rats of various levels of craziness publicly attacking each other ...


11 posted on 03/16/2025 6:56:04 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: toddausauras

Vance will beat Fetterman like a rug


12 posted on 03/16/2025 6:56:53 PM PDT by Fai Mao (All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fetterman might just be the successor to Senator John Blutarski however.


13 posted on 03/16/2025 7:06:58 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fetterman is a far, far better candidate than any the Dems have had since Obama. Maybe better than Obama in the humanity department.

Fetterman comes across as a personable fellow one can reason with, and who can hold his own in a friendly argument. The Dems have actually found a real human being, not some robot or weirdo. He goes over well on Rogan, which should count for a lot.

Up to that point, well and good.


14 posted on 03/16/2025 7:11:19 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: toddausauras

Have you been drinking? A brain dead clown in a sweat shirt? HaHa...


15 posted on 03/16/2025 7:12:34 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: MinorityRepublican
Why do Democrat leftists feel the emotional rage to think Trump is something that needs a solution? If he were that bad as an executive he will fail abysmally and the processes of our elections solves that.

No. It's really sick. Their greatest existential threat is that they know he will succeed spectacularly if not kept hamstrung in a thousand different ways throughput the agencies of government and its unelected bureaucrats. This is really insane. I believe they would kill millions to gain ten points in the polls to wage wars against Trump.

16 posted on 03/16/2025 7:18:42 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Why do Democrat leftists feel the emotional rage to think Trump is something that needs a solution? If he were that bad as an executive he will fail abysmally and the processes of our elections solves that.

No. It's really sick. Their greatest existential threat is that they know he will succeed spectacularly if not kept hamstrung in a thousand different ways throughput the agencies of government and its unelected bureaucrats. This is really insane. I believe they would kill millions to gain ten points in the polls to wage wars against Trump.

17 posted on 03/16/2025 7:21:42 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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18 posted on 03/16/2025 7:46:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Democratic Party HAS NO “answer to President Donald Trump!”


19 posted on 03/16/2025 8:01:48 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: toddausauras

Off your meds again, are you?

There is no chance Fetterman will EVER be POTUS!

POTUS 48 is J.D. Vance!


20 posted on 03/16/2025 8:04:04 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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