Sen. John Fetterman speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chambers on March 13, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Thursday published a Washington Post column defending his bipartisan record while declaring himself a Democrat with no plans to leave the party.
Titled “Become a Republican? I’d be terrible,” the column lands days after a Politico Magazine report that detailed an alleged quiet effort by President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans to court the first-term Pennsylvania Democrat. Fetterman has increasingly broken with his party on Israel, border policy, and the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
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