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Fetterman’s Response About Who Is Current Dem Leader Tells You Everything About Party Today

Updated: POLITICS

Who would’ve guessed that Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) — the hoodie-wearing, hard-left darling of the 2022 cycle — would end up being the lone voice of reason in his party? Nobody saw that coming.

Sure, he still votes with Democrats most of the time, but credit where it’s due: Fetterman hasn’t been afraid to call out his own side when they cross the line. During the government shutdown, he broke ranks early and voted with Republicans to keep the government open — and he didn’t stop there. He openly blasted his fellow Democrats for turning the shutdown into a political stunt, calling it an “absolute failure” and reminding them that “Americans are not leverage.”

Fetterman joined Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning, where he was asked about reports that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had pressured Democrats who were leaning “yes” on reopening the government to hold out longer for political effect.

Fetterman’s response was refreshingly blunt: he said Schumer never approached him. “I was not in a conversation, or I never got any outreach,” he said, noting that he was “always a hard yes to keep our government open.”

And he didn’t stop there.

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Fetterman went after his own party for crossing a moral line — refusing to fund programs like SNAP and even the military just to score political points. He made it clear that, for him, it’s supposed to be country over party:

Then Fetterman really dropped the hammer. When host Lawrence Jones asked him point-blank who was actually calling the shots for the Democrats during the shutdown, Fetterman didn’t hesitate: “No one really knows,” he said.

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“My values are reflected in my vote and the things that I support here, and if that might put me at odds with parts of my party, I’m okay with that,” he stressed. “We need to be….a big tent party.”

Fetterman said he wouldn’t play along with the political “brinkmanship,” refusing to use the American people as pawns in his party’s shutdown games. That’s the kind of plainspoken honesty Democrats can’t stand — because it exposes their entire strategy.

And it shows why they’re in such disarray. Polls from last year told the story: 31 percent of Kamala Harris voters said they didn’t even know who the Democratic Party’s leader was — or said it was “nobody.” Schumer, the supposed top dog, managed a pitiful 7.7 percent.

Their own members can’t even name who’s in charge — and now the party is in total chaos, all thanks to a mess Schumer created himself. Democrats sold their base a fantasy about what this shutdown fight was really about. They claimed it was some noble crusade to “save healthcare,” but when they folded without getting a thing, the Left went ballistic.

Then came the bombshell report that Schumer tried to strong-arm fellow Democrats into holding out longer. So which is it? Was he actually trying to dig in and failed — losing even his own Minority Whip, Dick Durbin, to a “yes” vote — or was he just putting on a tough-guy act, voting “no” while quietly letting others clean up the mess?

Either way, it’s a bad look. Schumer comes off weak, manipulative, or both — and Democrats are now stuck with a fractured base heading into the midterms. Voters see through the political games, and the far left thinks they didn’t go hard enough. That’s a losing combination no matter how you spin it.