{"id":2369640,"date":"2024-11-15T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-warns-deep-blue-democrats-their-messages-can-hurt-purple-state-candidates-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:59:04","slug":"fetterman-warns-deep-blue-democrats-their-messages-can-hurt-purple-state-candidates-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-warns-deep-blue-democrats-their-messages-can-hurt-purple-state-candidates-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman warns deep-blue Democrats their messages can hurt purple state candidates &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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-warns-deep-blue-democrats-their-messages-can-hurt-purple-state-candidates-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=2369640&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>Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has raised concerns about the Democratic Party&#8217;s messaging in \u200bswing states following Vice\u200d President Kamala Harris&#8217;s defeat in the 2024 presidential election.\u200d In an interview with NBC News,\u200d Fetterman \u200cemphasized that Democrats need to reassess their communications strategies, particularly in\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-parents-successfully-pressured-their-school-board-to-ditch-divisive-equity-training\/\" title=\"These Parents Successfully Pressured Their School Board To Ditch Divisive Equity Training\u00a0\">purple districts<\/a> that are crucial for gaining electoral support. He noted that the challenges may\u2063 not stem from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-elder-says-dem-power-players-more-concerned-with-controlling-u-s-senate-than-protecting-gov-newsom-in-ca-recall\/\" title=\"Larry Elder Says Dem Power Players More Concerned With Controlling U.S. Senate Than Protecting Gov. Newsom In CA Recall\">individual candidates<\/a> but rather from statements made by other party members that \u2063could alienate voters. Fetterman&#8217;s remarks\u200c highlight the need for the party to balance progressive ideals with\u200d pragmatic messaging to appeal to a broader\u200b electorate.  <\/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 warns deep-blue Democrats their messages can hurt purple state candidates<\/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_1882921\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-fetterman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Fetterman<\/a> (D-PA) sounded the alarm on Democrats&rsquo; perhaps unintentional messaging in swing states following Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a>&rsquo;s loss in the 2024 presidential election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/john-fetterman-says-democrats-need-stop-freaking-everything-trump-rcna180270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">interview<\/a> with NBC News, Fetterman said Democrats need to rethink their messaging in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">purple districts versus districts<\/a> that are easily winnable for the party. When asked if Democrats should take more risks in the media, Fetterman said the issue for Democrats might not even be a particular candidate, but what other candidates say that gets in the way.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For all of the very hard-left, kind of &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-speaks-at-turning-point-usa-believers-summit-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at Turning Point USA Believers\u2019 Summit - Washington Examiner\">woke&#038;rsquo<\/a>; things [Republicans] loaded up into the clips &hellip; are unloaded on the backs of all of us in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-warn-against-moving-away-from-trump-legacy-as-gop-moves-forward\/\" title=\"Republicans warn against moving away from Trump legacy as GOP moves forward\">purple states<\/a>, and we&rsquo;re paying for all of the things that our colleagues might say in these hard blue kinds of districts,&rdquo; Fetterman told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Democrats from safe districts &ldquo;can&rsquo;t forget that anything you say is immediately going to be nationalized&rdquo; and that those comments would be &ldquo;weaponized&rdquo; in hard-to-win states or districts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So it&rsquo;s not so much what we say or our own views, it&rsquo;s what the most extreme in our party say and project that&rsquo;s going to get weaponized, and it&rsquo;s undeniable that&rsquo;s happened,&rdquo; Fetterman said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In advice to fellow Democrats, Fetterman said he would tell them that &ldquo;all of the safe positions in your district, or those things you say, those will be weaponized on the backs [of] the purple states and colleagues that have to defend that. It&rsquo;s like, they are running your record [in] some of these purple states, as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said his advice is less so &ldquo;criticism,&rdquo; and more so &ldquo;the reality.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/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_1882921\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1882921\"}});<\/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 cautions deep-blue Democrats that their messaging may harm candidates in swing states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2369641,"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":[],"tags":[45121,7921,45122,32076],"class_list":["post-2369640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-deep-blue-democrats","tag-fetterman","tag-purple-state-candidates","tag-washington-examiner"],"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\/2369640","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\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369644,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369640\/revisions\/2369644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2369641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}