{"id":2360021,"date":"2024-10-26T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-calls-trumps-support-in-pennsylvania-astonishing-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:28:38","slug":"fetterman-calls-trumps-support-in-pennsylvania-astonishing-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-calls-trumps-support-in-pennsylvania-astonishing-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman calls Trump&#8217;s support in Pennsylvania &#8216;astonishing&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-calls-trumps-support-in-pennsylvania-astonishing-washington-examiner%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=2360021&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>In \u200ba recent interview, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman expressed\u200d astonishment at the level of support former President Donald Trump garners in the state as Election \u200dDay approaches. Fetterman \u2063noted that\u2063 the intense visibility of Trump merchandise, \u2063such \u2064as T-shirts and hats, reflects a\u2062 substantial and almost self-sustaining\u2063 movement behind Trump. Polls indicate that Trump is currently ahead of Vice \u200bPresident Kamala Harris by 0.6% in Pennsylvania, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-falsely-blamed-trump-in-2020-campaign-for-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-jury-aquits-2-hung-on-2\/\" title=\"Biden Falsely Blamed Trump in 2020 Campaign for Whitmer Kidnapping &#039;Plot&#039;; Jury Aquits 2, Hung on 2\">crucial swing state<\/a> for the upcoming\u2062 2024 election. Fetterman acknowledged the impact of prominent figures like billionaire Elon Musk endorsing Trump, which he\u200d believes adds a unique\u2063 dimension to Trump&#8217;s support in Pennsylvania. He described the situation as\u2062 &#8220;real&#8221; and \u200csuggested that Musk&#8217;s \u2062association could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slew-of-vexing-international-crises-confront-biden-a-year-out-from-election-day\/\" title=\"Biden faces numerous global crises ahead of Election Day.\">influence voter perceptions<\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fetterman struck by Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;astonishing&rsquo; support in Pennsylvania<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1846020\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s support in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pennsylvania<\/a> ahead of Election Day is &ldquo;astonishing,&rdquo; according to Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-fetterman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Fetterman<\/a> (D-PA). <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,&rdquo; Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/26\/magazine\/john-fetterman-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And anybody spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity,&rdquo; the Democrat said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s astonishing. I was doing an event in Indiana County &mdash; very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long, and it was dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it&rsquo;s like, Where does this all come from? It&rsquo;s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&rsquo;s comments come as Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, by 0.6% in Pennsylvania, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/pennsylvania\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according<\/a> to a <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average. Pennsylvania is a key swing state in the 2024 election that could decide the race. In 2020, the Keystone State swung for then-candidate and now-President Joe Biden by roughly 80,500 votes. <\/p>\n<p>In the interview published Saturday, Fetterman discussed how X Owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a> has taken on a particularly unique role as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-megadonors-puzzled-to-receive-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"GOP Megadonors Puzzled To Receive Stimulus Checks\">billionaire donor<\/a> through his campaigning for Trump. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s like something very special exists there,&rdquo; Fetterman said of Trump&rsquo;s support in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And that doesn&rsquo;t mean that I admire it,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just &mdash; it&rsquo;s real. And now [Elon] Musk is joining him. I mean, to a lot of people, that&rsquo;s Tony Stark. That&rsquo;s the world&rsquo;s richest guy. And he&rsquo;s obviously, and undeniably, a brilliant guy, and he&rsquo;s saying, &lsquo;Hey, that&rsquo;s my guy for president.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s going to really matter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In &ldquo;some sense,&rdquo; Fetterman told the outlet, Musk &ldquo;is a bigger star than Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, 53, has taken on a major role in the 2024 race due to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3162649\/elon-musk-super-pac-website-swing-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">significant backing<\/a> of a super PAC called America PAC that is backing Trump. The Justice Department recently warned Musk&rsquo;s group that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3200814\/doj-warns-elon-musk-giveaway-illegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">could be violating federal law<\/a> by handing out large sums to voters through a giveaway system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fetterman endorsed Harris in July, shortly after Biden dropped out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">presidential race<\/a>. He told the <em>New York Times<\/em> that the race is about a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">stark choice&#038;rdquo<\/a>; between Harris and Trump. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And that&rsquo;s why the people that are left that haven&rsquo;t made up their decision are going, you know, what do I want for the next four years? And I do believe enough people will choose Harris. But it&rsquo;s going to be much, much closer than anyone would want,&rdquo; Fetterman said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1846020\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1846020\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fetterman amazed by Trump&#8217;s &#8216;remarkable&#8217; backing in PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2360022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Fett.-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7921,5836,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2360021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-fetterman","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Fett.-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360021","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}