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.
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Likely to switch to GOP and this will be moot!
Republicans are not in the least game-ready for midterms according to Scott Presler who got the vote out in PA last cycle.
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."
Were the 400000 who will lose coverage illegal aliens?
The shocking thing is he seems a better Republican than Dr Oz.
For sure a better one than Romney.
Might switch parties. operation Chaos.
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I’ll switch to vote for him. Unless the GOP put up some turd fondler like Corman, Oz, or Pileggi.
Come on over, Senator; the water’s fine!
or Jeff Bartos, whose wife ran the republicans for Shapiro campaign.
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.
Indeed.
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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
At all.
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