{"id":2637400,"date":"2026-07-29T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-urges-fetterman-to-stay-a-democrat-as-moderate-power-ebbs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:46:56","slug":"schumer-urges-fetterman-to-stay-a-democrat-as-moderate-power-ebbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-urges-fetterman-to-stay-a-democrat-as-moderate-power-ebbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer urges Fetterman to stay a Democrat as moderate power ebbs"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fschumer-urges-fetterman-to-stay-a-democrat-as-moderate-power-ebbs%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=2637400&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>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) to remain with the Democratic Party amid growing tensions between moderates and more progressive or socialist factions within the party.Fetterman, considered a centrist, has indicated a willingness to leave the Democrats if the party adopts anti-Israel policies, emphasizing his moral stance on Israel&#8217;s support. Schumer defended Fetterman, highlighting the Democratic Party&#8217;s diversity of views and his value as a member of Congress. Fetterman has consistently denied rumors of switching to the Republican Party and has expressed concerns about the rise of anti-Israel sentiments among some Democratic candidates, including those with controversial backgrounds and views, such as Abdul el Sayed and Darializa Avila Chevalier. He criticized the recent ideological shifts within the party, describing some candidates&#8217; positions as outrageous and aligned with anti-Israel movements. fetterman also condemned the increasing influence of left-wing radicals and their stance on issues like immigration, policing, and foreign policy, especially regarding Israel.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) on Wednesday pressed Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-fetterman\/\">John Fetterman <\/a>(D-PA) to remain a Democrat, as the influence of the party\u2019s moderate faction in Washington is increasingly challenged by socialists and progressives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fetterman is viewed as a centrist maverick lawmaker more in line with Schumer\u2019s establishment take on policies than with socialists and progressives in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"288\">Democratic Party<\/a>, whose voices are growing louder in Congress and across the country. As tensions escalate between the factions, the Pennsylvania senator has recently suggested he could be open to leaving his home party, a move that would further weaken the establishment coalition in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/senate\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a>, led by Schumer. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4668396\/chuck-schumer-john-fetterman-democratic-party-moderate-power-weakening\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Schumer pushes Fetterman to stay in party as moderate Democratic power weakens<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4667697\/fauci-fifth-amendment-pardon-contempt\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Fauci\u2019s Fifth Amendment answers may test Biden pardon as GOP eyes contempt<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4667998\/interior-department-asks-congress-10-million-funding-freedom-250\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Interior Department asks Congress for $10 million more in funding for Freedom 250<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid speculation that Fetterman may abandon Democrats, Schumer this week urged his colleague to remain in the party, arguing that there is room for widely divergent political views in the Senate caucus. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople in our caucus very much like him and respect him, and we\u2019re a big-tent party. We can have a lot of different views in that party,\u201d Schumer told reporters, describing Fetterman as \u201ca very good member of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fetterman has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4561069\/fetterman-terrible-republican-party-switch\/\">long denied rumors <\/a>that he\u2019ll switch allegiance to the Republican Party. But earlier this month, he said that should the Democratic Party adopt opposition to the state of Israel, he would be <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4650827\/fetterman-leave-democratic-party-anti-israel\/\">forced to leave<\/a>. Some have pushed for the lawmaker to become an independent, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4631583\/manchin-urges-democrat-fetterman-becoming-an-independent\/\">following in the steps<\/a> of mavericks such as former West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) recently said he had been in conversations with Fetttemran about possibly switching parties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy long-term concern has been with the Democratic Party, as I am a member of that, is that our party is going to back away and turn their back to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"219\">Israel<\/a>,\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cIf our party ever becomes, and just makes it official, the anti-Israel party, that\u2019s when I would leave because that\u2019s been a moral clarity for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fetterman has particularly expressed concern about the rise of candidates in the Democratic Party who have embraced a strongly anti-Israel stance, including <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4653346\/el-sayed-stop-making-fun-haley-stevens\/\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a>, who has been polling well ahead of Michigan\u2019s Senate primary on Aug. 4, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, a socialist who <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4621941\/new-york-democratic-primary-13th-district\/\">won the primary election<\/a> for a\u00a0New York House race in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avila Chevalier has declined to confirm whether she believes Israel should continue to exist, and interned at a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4655374\/dsa-candidate-hamas-greenhouse-school-internship\/\">Hamas-linked West Bank school<\/a> in 2014. Hamas is the terrorist group that has pledged to eliminate Israel and operates in Gaza, the area adjacent to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed has attracted controversy for repeatedly campaigning with Twitch political streamer Hasan Piker, due to his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvAN_N2OQJQ\">anti-Israel views<\/a>, including comments in April that he \u201cwould vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4647363\/hakeem-jeffries-opposes-ending-aid-israel\/\"><strong>JEFFRIES THWARTS THE LEFT, OPPOSES ENDING ALL AID TO ISRAEL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just been the dancing days of the dirtbag Left,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4622915\/fetterman-dirtbag-left-socialists-new-york\/\">Fetterman bemoaned<\/a> during a Fox News interview in June. \u201cThe kind of people they are trying to run out of office, they are just good, traditional kinds of Democrats you would expect in New York City now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, some of these candidates are outrageous. You have candidates, they\u2019re \u2018abolish ICE,\u2019 \u2018abolish the police,\u2019 \u2018abolish the border,\u2019 \u2026 a pro-Hamas wing \u2026 just declaring a war on just regular Democrats,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer urges Fetterman to stay amid party faction tensions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2637401,"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\/2026\/07\/AP26210535551997.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33301,3685,41377,9552,5894],"class_list":["post-2637400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-democrats","tag-john-fetterman","tag-moderates","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26210535551997.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637400","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\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637404,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637400\/revisions\/2637404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}