John Fetterman Grilled on Why He’s Still a Democrat by Bill O’Reilly: ‘Your Party Is Against You’
Bill O’Reilly flat-out asked Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) why he is still a Democrat on Wednesday, pointing to the senator’s Republican-leaning views on several issues.
After Fetterman boasted during a NewsNation town hall that he was “only one of two Democrats that are voting to keep the government open,” O’Reilly questioned, “Why are you a Democrat though?”
“I don’t say that to be a wise guy,” he insisted. “You support Israel and the progressives don’t, generally speaking. You are for a very rigorous defense against Putin in Ukraine, correct? You want to stop them, right?”
“Yeah, of course,” replied Fetterman. “I just on social media encouraged President Trump to provide Tomahawks to the Ukrainians. I mean, it’s like, he is probably the only person in the world that could end this terrible war.”
O’Reilly pressed, “You’re not a wild spender, you want to get the debt under control, so why are you a Democrat? Because your party is against you on all three of those issues.”
“I think I want to follow the truths,” said Fetterman.
Asked, “Why aren’t you an independent then?” the senator responded:
Well, I mean those are some independent thoughts, but overall, I mean, you have to pick one side – Republican, Democrat – that’s always been my party. Let me just say, it’s like I’m the only Democrat in my family. I grew up in a conservative part of Pennsylvania and I grew up and I know and I love people that voted for President Trump, but they are not fascists, they are not Nazis, they are not trying to destroy the Constitution, those things, and that’s part of another thing. I refuse to call people, you know, Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody, anybody to Hitler and those things, and that kind of extreme rhetoric is going to continue, we’re going to be more likely in resulting in extreme kind of outcomes and political violence.
He continued, “Like Charlie Kirk. For me, all I could say is like, let people grieve. Give people the space. I’m not gonna use that terrible thing to make my argument and try to put out my views. It’s like, my God, you know, he’s a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet, and now people have forgotten, President Trump in my state was shot in the head, and could you imagine where our nation would be if he was hit in the same way as Kirk? We really gotta turn the temperature down.”
Last month, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Fetterman whether he would “consider switching parties” to become a Republican.
“No, I’m not going to switch,” Fetterman responded.
While Fetterman has been praised by members of the Republican Party as a “common sense” Democrat, he acknowledged on NewsNation, on Wednesday that many of his supporters were unhappy with him.
In February, a former Fetterman staffer described the senator as a “useful idiot for Republicans.”
In April, a poll showed that Fetterman was one of just two Democrats with a negative favorability rating, appearing on the very bottom of the list at -17.2.
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