{"id":2263017,"date":"2024-06-08T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-explains-the-two-factors-that-led-to-his-political-transformation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T20:54:56","slug":"fetterman-explains-the-two-factors-that-led-to-his-political-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-explains-the-two-factors-that-led-to-his-political-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Details Two Key Influences on His Political Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffetterman-explains-the-two-factors-that-led-to-his-political-transformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2263017&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>You know, I almost died,\u201d Fetterman responded. \u201cThis year I will be 18 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-warned-fauci-china-was-likely-lying-about-covid-deaths-fauci-said-email-was-too-long-to-read\/\" title=\"Scientist Warned Fauci China Was Likely Lying About COVID Deaths. Fauci Said Email Was \u2018Too Long To Read\u2019\">fully recovered<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on Bill \u2063Maher&#8217;s show, Senator John\u200c Fetterman (D-PA) discussed his transformation from being on \u2064the\u200b far-left of the Democratic Party \u200bto becoming a \u200dmore moderate center-left member. \u2064Maher \u2062praised Fetterman for speaking \u2064freely and honestly, saying he represented many Democrats who are afraid\u2062 to speak openly.\u2063 Maher asked Fetterman if his near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/near-death-experiences-a-look-back-at-famous-figures-whose-claims-drew-criticism\/\" title=\"\u2018Near-Death\u2019 Experiences: A Look Back At Famous Figures Whose Claims Drew Criticism\">-death experience<\/a> from a\u2062 stroke played a role in his \u200cpolitical shift,\u2062 to which Fetterman responded that it definitely did. He stated that he has fully recovered\u2062 from \u2062the stroke he had 18 years ago, and that \u200cexperience has influenced his more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-the-left-turned-on-their-own-for-not-being-woke-enough\/\" title=\"5 Times The Left Turned On Their Own For Not Being \u2018Woke\u2019 Enough\">moderate views<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-fetterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Fetterman<\/a> (D-PA) explained his transformation this week from being on the far-Left of the Democrat Party to becoming a center-left Democrat who has much more moderate views than many of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman made the remarks during a Friday appearance on Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d show on HBO while Maher was reflecting on how Fetterman has changed ever since he had his stroke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see you, especially the last couple of years, you speak so freely. You speak like what politicians who I get on this show who aren\u2019t in politics anymore, the ones who are out of office when they can be honest, and that\u2019s the way you speak now and it\u2019s a beautiful thing,\u201d Maher said. \u201cYou speak for a lot of Democrats that are afraid to say a lot of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher then asked Fetterman if his near-death experience from his stroke played a role in his political shift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely. There\u2019s a line from the first \u2018Batman,\u2019 Joker\u2019s like \u2018I\u2019ve been dead once already. It\u2019s very liberating,&#8217;\u201d Fetterman responded. \u201cIt\u2019s freeing in a way. And I just think after beating all of that, I just really [want to] be able to say the things that I have to really believe in and not be afraid of if there\u2019s any kind of blowback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-decide-primaries-in-nevada-south-carolina-maine-and-north-dakota-live-updates\/\" title=\"Voters Decide Primaries in Nevada, South Carolina, Maine, and North Dakota (LIVE UPDATES)\">progressive-wing<\/a> of the Democrat Party left him, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter what happened on October 7, I really knew that whole progressive stack would be blasted apart and there would not be any kind of way how the Democrats are going to be able to reply to that kind of response,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I really decided early on that I believe that was gonna be the right side with Israel throughout all of that. \u2026 Democrats would continue to peel away and kind of walk away from standing with Israel on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman also mocked far-Left activists: \u201cAnd even in Philadelphia, the Queers for Palestine blocked the Pride Parade in Philadelphia, and I never saw that on the Bingo card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">John Fetterman describes how October 7th was the moment he abandoned the label \u2018progressive\u2019:<br \/> Bill Maher: \u201cYou said \u2018I\u2019m not a progressive, I\u2019m a democrat.\u2019 What does that mean?\u201d<br \/> JF: \u201cI didn\u2019t leave the label, it left me. After it happened on October 7th I really knew that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iHx5GkJK2T\">pic.twitter.com\/iHx5GkJK2T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricAbbenante\/status\/1799268637787734523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) discussed his shift from the far-left to a more moderate, center-left stance during his appearance on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221; Fetterman highlighted his evolving political views, which now align more centrally compared to many of his Democratic colleagues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2263018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2150189127.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2150189127.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}