Fetterman nixes rumors of party switch: ‘That’s a rocket sled to Palookaville’

Sen. John Fetterman has dismissed the growing rumors that he intends to pull a switcheroo and join the Republican Party.

“That’s amateur hour shit,” he said to Semafor of the theory. “If they think, ‘oh, it’s going to be like a Manchin or a Sinema play,’ that’s just not true, and that’s not going to happen.”

“It’s not gonna happen. And even if I wanted to do that, that is a rocket sled to Palookaville to try to switch. I would make a pretty bad Republican,” he added.

He wasn’t wrong. While he’s the sanest Democrat seen in ages, he’s still a Democrat at heart.

That said, this week he did stunningly agree with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham after Graham called for the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program.

“I don’t think diplomacy works,” Graham said during a CBS interview. “I am hoping there will be an effort by Israel to decimate the Iran nuclear program, supported by the United States. And if we don’t do that it will be a historical mistake.”

Fetterman responded very positively to Graham’s words:

While the theory that Fetterman might switch has been bandied about for awhile now, it started to really pick up traction on Inauguration Day after New Jersey Assemblyman Jamel Holley essentially endorsed it.

“Just left a conversation and my source indicated to me that a key Democratic senator is expected to change party affiliation to Republican by next week,” he tweeted that afternoon. “Wow!”

Wow indeed.

Now, with no other hints to guide them, virtually all social media users predicted Fetterman would be the one to make the switch.

“Gotta be Fetterman,” one social media user tweeted. “With the swing Pennsylvania experienced, it makes sense. Plus he’s such a huge Israel supporter and that don’t fly in the Democrat party. And of course, he went to Mar a Lago.”

He did indeed recently travel to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Donald Trump, who subsequently praised him.

“It was a totally fascinating meeting,” he told the Washington Examiner. “He’s a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn’t be more impressed. He’s a commonsense person. He’s not liberal or conservative. He’s just a commonsense person, which is beautiful.”

“If I was a betting man, I’d throw some money on it being Fetterman,” another social media user tweeted.

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But some Republican social media users pushed back by arguing that, assuming Fetterman did join the GOP, he’d just be another RINO given his left-wing views on abortion and other matters.

Some also warned that a switch by Fetterman could just be a desperate gambit meant to keep him in politics now that he’s alienated so many Democrat voters by supporting the war in Israel and also meeting with President Trump.

Vivek Saxena

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