Cornered on fracking, Fetterman blurts out: ‘They’re eating dogs! They’re eating cats!’

In the occasional instance of feigning an unbiased position, NBC News anchor Kristen Welker grilled Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on first Democrat nominee Kamala Harris’s flipflop to support fracking, and then on his own change of heart on the issue.

Eager to talk about anything other than fracking, which is an important issue in Pennsylvania, Fetterman tried his best to pivot to controversial topics centering around Republican nominee Donald Trump, to include the claims out of Ohio that Haitian “refugees” allowed into the country by the Biden-Harris administration were eating cats and other pets — for what it’s worth, the city of Springfield claims that the nearly 20,000 Haitians that came to the city of 58,000 did so organically, because of job opportunities and word of mouth.

When Welker pressed the Democrat, a rare occurrence, he blurted out, “They’re eating dogs! They’re eating cats!”

“I know you’ve talked about this quite a bit. Vice President Harris once supported a ban on fracking when she was running for president in 2020,” Welker said. “She even sued the Obama administration to prevent fracking off California’s coast. Now, she says she will not ban the practice as president. Why should voters trust that that is really what the vice president believes.”

“So strange why we just keep talking about fracking back in 2020,” Fetterman protested. “I said that that might be an issue, but it’s not going to be a defining issue. And now in 2024 we’re still trying to talk about fracking.”

“And now the other side, they’re talking about eating cats and geese and dogs, and saying absurd things and talking about how if Trump doesn’t win — he said that you have to blame the Jews on that and just absurd things.”

The senator said admitted that the outcome is “going to be very close in Pennsylvania and it’s not going to be defined by fracking.”

On that note, polling shows Trump doing well in the state:

Welker then turned her focus on Fetterman opposing fracking in 2016, only to come around in 2022 while running for the Senate to “absolutely support fracking.”

“What exactly do you like about fracking?” she asked.

After further protesting the focus on fracking, he said, “Now, if you want to have a serious conversation about policy, then I would challenge Trump and Vance to have one other than talking about eating pets.”

Welker pressed, asking again, “What do you now like about fracking? You say you’re not going to ban it, you support it now.”

Comically, he replied with a laugh, “They’re eating dogs! They’re eating cats!”

Tom Tillison

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