John Fetterman likens Donald Trump's Pennsylvania impact to Taylor Swift
By: Ashleigh Fields (The Hill)
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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) said former President Trump's impact on the state was "astonishing" in a Saturday interview with the New York Times.
"Anybody spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It's astonishing," Fetterman said of the wave of support the Republican nominee has experienced.
He referenced Trump superstores throughout the state that sell t-shirts, bumper stickers, hats, and other paraphernalia as staples of the leader's widespread impact.
"It was almost like Taylor Swift kind of swag. It's like of everything. It wasn't just a sign," Fetterman recounted. "It's the kinds of thing that has taken on its own life on that. And it's like something very special exists there. And that doesn't mean that I admire it."
Over the past few months, Fetterman has notably admired the GOP's ability to gain voters' attention in the Keystone State, arguing that avid Trump supporters like Elon Musk can "appeal to a demographic" in a way Democrats cannot.
The Senator said Pennsylvania voters' affinity for Trump "deepened" after he survived an assassination attempt on the ground campaigning.
"Trump has created a special kind of a hold … and he's remade the party, and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania," Fetterman said in September to a crowd at The Atlantic Festival. "And I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt."
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Is this satire?
Funny how you all love him now and said all kinds of horrible things about him when he was ill.
Fetterman gets it.
I think leftists are also starting to see the light.
I wonder how many of them will refuse to accept Trump as their president and pout incessantly about his being unfit.
Please explain how anything in this story makes Trump fit for office.
If the people of Pennsylvania see Trump as their best choice, then they see him fit for office.'
Maybe one day during his second term you will finally see it, too.
Trump could live to be 500 years old and he will never be fit for office.
I doubt that he could live even 20 more years.
So you have a different opinion. Meh!!!
Probably right, but what will piss off leftists is that when he does go, he will get the same burial honors as every other president.
The federal employees who hate him today will embrace the day off.
Doubt that it will look like the farewell to Bush I or McCain.
Inauguration Day equals an extra holiday for us tireless federal workers.
The Michelin man can help find them.
And reactionaries will be lined up giving him a raised straight arm salute.
Didn't that moron Ronny Jackson say trump could live to be 200???????????????
SSFS
If Trump wins elected officials and people who do business with the government may need to accept him. The rest of the people , like me, can tell him to go sit on one of these
So you won't accept him as the duly and fairly elected President of the United States.[✘]
I will accept that he is president , I will never accept him as my president, he is easily the biggest piece of shit in America today.[✘]
Some of you have been saying that since the days of, 'the crown is hers to lose'.
I dont know what the fuck you are talking about .
Fetterman acknowledges that there is a surge of popularity in certain areas that have elevated Donald Trump to cult leader status. I think Trumps popularity is closer to the "skibidi toilet" phenomenon, where some are irrationally taken by anything "skibidi toilet" while the rest of rational adults are left shaking their heads in confusion.
And while he acknowledges it, as Fetterman said " that doesn't mean that I admire it."
Yes, I’m sure Pennsylvanians would be very excited over the Trump tariff sales tax that would drive them further into poverty. I’m sure they’ll pretzel themselves into ways of blaming democrats for it if Trump manages to win.
Once the anal probes begin, it's a little too late to be rethinking their votes... That one Trump official in the back is apparently going to use two fingers...