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Sen. Fetterman to Be Primaried in 2028
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 20 November 2025 | Solange Reyner

Posted on 11/20/2025 2:36:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Pennsylvania Working Families Party says it will support a primary challenger against Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman 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, not a Trump-enabling Democrat," the group said in a social media post.

"We're training potential candidates, recruiting volunteers, and soliciting donations to help us defeat him," it added.

The party has not yet fielded a candidate.

Fetterman has, on occasion, voted with Republicans and taken stances that differ from many in his own party. He recently joined Republicans to help push a funding bill during the record 43-day government shutdown, a move that drew criticism from Democrats.

"After 40 days as a consistent voice against shutting our government down, I voted YES for the 15th time to REOPEN," Fetterman said in a statement on his vote.

"I'm sorry to our military, SNAP recipients, [government] workers and Capitol Police who haven't been paid in weeks. It should've never come to this. This was a failure."

The legislative package left out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: fetterman; wfp; workingfamiliesparty

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1 posted on 11/20/2025 2:36:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Likely to switch to GOP and this will be moot!


2 posted on 11/20/2025 2:36:59 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Republicans are not in the least game-ready for midterms according to Scott Presler who got the vote out in PA last cycle.


3 posted on 11/20/2025 2:37:37 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: DarthVader
Likely to switch to GOP and this will be moot!

Not in Pennsylvania. He will have no problem crushing a primary opponent.
4 posted on 11/20/2025 2:40:11 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: MinorityRepublican
Pennsylvania is not an open primary state. It has a closed primary system, meaning only voters registered with a major political party can participate in that party's primary election.

Voters must be registered with a party by the 16th day before the primary to be eligible to vote in that party’s primary.

As of 2025, Pennsylvania is one of only 10 states with such a closed system."

Is Pennsylvania and open primary state?

5 posted on 11/20/2025 2:41:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Were the 400000 who will lose coverage illegal aliens?


6 posted on 11/20/2025 2:41:56 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: DarthVader

The shocking thing is he seems a better Republican than Dr Oz.
For sure a better one than Romney.


7 posted on 11/20/2025 2:44:51 PM PST by Zathras
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To: MinorityRepublican

Might switch parties. operation Chaos.


8 posted on 11/20/2025 2:47:05 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: MinorityRepublican

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9 posted on 11/20/2025 2:53:04 PM PST by sauropod
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To: kvanbrunt2

I’ll switch to vote for him. Unless the GOP put up some turd fondler like Corman, Oz, or Pileggi.


10 posted on 11/20/2025 2:54:36 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Come on over, Senator; the water’s fine!


11 posted on 11/20/2025 2:55:56 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: kvanbrunt2

or Jeff Bartos, whose wife ran the republicans for Shapiro campaign.


12 posted on 11/20/2025 2:56:58 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Dr. Sivana

Many Dems in PA are angry with him. They’re already saying they won’t vote for him again.

Yes, the same people who screamed to end the shutdown are angry with him for ending it. They never make any sense.


13 posted on 11/20/2025 3:00:24 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: DarthVader

Indeed.


14 posted on 11/20/2025 3:02:35 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican
The legislative package left out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans and non-Americans who shouldn't be here...at the cost of higher premiums for millions of working REAL Americans who can no longer afford once decent/once-affordable health insurance and are now forced on...Obamacare. When the "donor pool" runs empty...who's going to feed Obamacare? The rich?...they didn't get rich being stupid...they'll leave or have politicians in their pocket dump the costs back on the -non-rich.

(fixed)

15 posted on 11/20/2025 3:02:52 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: Zathras

i am shocked and surprised at Fetterman. Maybe the stroke changed his thinking

I will offer up an apology to Fetterman. He is a reasonable Democrat.

Baby Fetterman in the Diaper Diplomacy videos is a hoot


16 posted on 11/20/2025 3:03:29 PM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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17 posted on 11/20/2025 3:05:21 PM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Fetterman no longer meets the basic requirements to earn his party's endorsement. It's not enough to be a "democrat" in his devolving Party:
-- He must also be a communist ... which he is not
-- He must also be a jihadist ... or, at the very least, a sympathizer to the ROT's "cause".
18 posted on 11/20/2025 3:05:30 PM PST by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: Tired of Taxes

At all.


19 posted on 11/20/2025 3:06:37 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: kvanbrunt2

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4095998/posts

here’s jeffie.


20 posted on 11/20/2025 3:06:53 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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