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If Uncle Festerman were TRULY ahead in the polls
he would NOT be scrubbing his site of pro Burn, Loot, and Murder!
Posted on 09/29/2022 8:40:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am absolutely blown away that Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is up in the polls. I haven’t been following the race that closely, but Dr Oz must be a mighty bad candidate to be losing to a Democrat who can barely speak. Especially in a state that has been trending Red. Pennsylvania is still competitive, but in a likely Red wave election this seat should be in the bag for Republicans.
Of course, the polls could be wrong and the prevailing narrative off. I am actually inclined to believe that, if for no other reason that Biden is doing so badly.
Fetterman’s campaign staff might be thinking the same thing. After years of asserting that he was a big supporter of BLM–and that he supported its principles long before BLM was a thing–Fetterman has apparently scrubbed his website of all references to the movement.
Senate candidate John Fetterman, D-Pa., has removed mentions of Black Lives Matter from his campaign website in the last month, a review of archived webpages showed.
The “issues” page on Fetterman’s website currently includes sections on inflation ,criminal justice reform, legalizing cannabis, renewable energy, immigration and several other topics, but doesn’t include any section devoted to Black Lives Matter. Archived copies of the page, though, show that as recently as Aug. 22, the same page highlighted Fetterman’s commitment to Black Lives Matter.
“John served as mayor of a city that’s more than 80% Black, and has championed the idea that Black lives matter since long before it became a hashtag,” the previous version of the campaign website stated under a section titled “Black Lives Matter.”
The Fetterman campaign has trotted out a fig leaf defense, asserting that wiping the BLM section wasn’t a big deal because a single video on the website makes a reference to BLM:
Fetterman spokesperson Joe Calvello said it was “false” to suggest the campaign has removed all Black Lives Matter references. He explained that Fetterman references Black Lives Matter in a “personalized video” on the site addressing gun violence. In the video, which was published in April, Fetterman states that, in the past, he never saw the media or general public caring about “Black lives mattering.”
“The one section you seem to be referencing was removed when we updated and greatly expanded our issues page weeks ago,” Calvello told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Voters deserve to know where we stand, and we’re proud that we spell out our platform clearly on our website.”
Fetterman has been getting a lot of pushback on the issue of crime. I suspect his soft on crime positions are not sitting well with the voters:
He has also received criticism for his positions on crime and criminal justice reform. Fetterman’s campaign recently walked back comments he made that appeared to advocate for the release of individuals convicted of second-degree murder.
Fetterman has previously signaled his support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In June, he expressed support for the movement in a tweet saying Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, should have been made a federal holiday a “long time ago.”
“Today we celebrate emancipation + reflect on the long shadow of systemic racism in America,” he tweeted. “PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter.”
As I said, I suspect that Oz is doing better than the polling suggests, and the Fetterman team is beginning to sweat. They have been banking on a sympathy vote and residual distrust of Dr. Oz, and that seems unlikely to be enough to overcome the structural dynamics of this election.
I hope I am right about this, despite having low confidence. Picking up the Pennsylvania senate seat is vital to getting a majority in the Senate.
I bet he scrubbed support for freeing all the murderers from prison too.
“Fetterman scrubs BLM support from campaign website”
Sounds like he now supports blacks being KILLED by police. After all, why else stop supporting BLM?
Would make a GREAT (suppression) ad to say just that.
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If Uncle Festerman were TRULY ahead in the polls
he would NOT be scrubbing his site of pro Burn, Loot, and Murder!
So let’s make a wedge between black supporters and Fetterman. Why would they condone this racist act?
Send our agents provocateur out.
Hard lefty Fetterman has name recognition in PA.
He served as Lt Gov of PA!
And he is a democRat.
Democrats are more loyal to democrats than republicans.
I lurk on DUmmies and rarely see anyone called a DINO.
99% of Dummies support every democRat no matter hard left, barely left or even a centrist. All are unanimously supported.
BREAKING: A new poll today shows Dr. Oz within the margin of error 🚨
He + his allies have been spending million$ on ads attacking us and clearly they're paying off
Will you rush a $20 donation right now to help us fight back?? https://t.co/o5OMDn22Vj— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) September 29, 2022
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John, Don't get nervous.
RE: Hard lefty Fetterman has name recognition in PA.
One of the reasons the GOP supported Dr. Oz in the primaries to be their candidate for Senate is PRECISELY because he has name recognition having been exposed to a wide swath of audience on TV as the in-house go to Medical Expert.
His biggest drawbacks: He’s not really a Pennsylvanian and he’s a Muslim.
Dr OZ is a MINO (Muslim in nam only).
Majority of Americans do not discriminate based on religion, race or national origin. Otherwise Obama would never have been president for 2 terms, with a Muslim father who was never American citizen and was of mixed race.
As for not being a Pensylvanian, Americans are mobile people who move to several states withing a lifetime. So if you are living in a state, you are from that state even if you lived in other states or were born in other state. I have lived in 4 states but now consider myself FLoridian because I live here now.
Oops.
BLM is so 2020 and George Floyd related. Smarter Dems are quietly stepping away from any association with it.
I’ll also add others did not live in Pennsylvania either. Dave McCormick was born in PA but was living in CT and joined the race as soon as he resigned from his job after living in CT for years, Barnette born in Alabama and was living in Virginia in 2020 before she ran for Congreess and lost, Oz born in OH was living in NJ and NY for work but went to school in PA and has family there and got married in PA, and Fetterman was born in PA and was still bumming around PA because he didn’t work and was living on his Daddy’s money.
I’m not from Pennsylvania but is it really that “Red”? When was the last time a Republican won the presidential race there before Trump in 16? Yes, you had Santorum for a while and Toomey and Pro-Abortionist Ridge as Governor but is the state really trending Republican? Don’t the Dems run up big margins in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh?
One more. Doug Mastriano born and raised in New Jersey, voted in NJ from 1982 to 2010, enters the military, lived in Germany and DC, becomes part of the faculty at the Army War College in PA in 2012 and in 2017 retires, 2018 runs for Congress in PA, was registered to vote in NJ up til 2021.
“He’s not really a Pennsylvanian and he’s a Muslim“
John Fetterman is not really a Democrat he’s a communist. And he also blew up Braddock PA. Dr.Oz Will do no harm. John Fetterman has the highest murder rate in Philadelphia on record. Carjackings or at the highest level in Philadelphia ever. Fetterman wants to empty out the prisons. I’ll take a doctor from Jersey and a Sufi Muslim (he doesn’t believe in sharia law and his wife and children are Christians) over a communist any day of the week.
The Pa. supreme court is almost all Democrat and are paving the way for more election fraud. Don’t be surprised if they steal this election also.
he doesn’t believe in sharia law, yet.
Shrek and Josh Soros will pull the whole rodent ticket in Pennsylvania down.
John Fetterman hates black people.
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