Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said during an interview at The Atlantic Festival that former President Donald Trump has a “special” bond with voters in his state that deepened after the July 13 assassination attempt.
Trump survived the attempted assassination during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania that left him slightly wounded, seriously injured two attendees and took the life of former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore.
Fetterman said that he wasn’t going to “mansplain” the situation to Vice President Kamala Harris, but noted that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a “fantastic” presidential candidate in 2016 though she ultimately lost the presidency to Trump.
“Trump has created a special kind of a hold … he’s remade the party and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania,” Fetterman told interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg.
“And I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt.”
Harris currently leads Trump by 1.0% in a head-to-head matchup in Pennsylvania, according to the RealClearPolling average of polls, with the lead expanding to 2.17% when other candidates, such as Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, independent candidate Cornel West and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, are included.
Fetterman warned elsewhere in his interview with Goldberg that Clinton was leading Trump in Pennsylvania polling during the 2016 race, but lost the crucial swing state to Trump.
“Everybody thought that it was in the bag, but that’s not the energy and the other kinds of things that were really consistent with what I’m witnessing all across,” Fetterman told Goldberg, according to Fox News.
“And then, sadly, we saw what happened.”
In national polling, Trump trails Harris by 1.9% in the RealClearPolling average of polls from September 3 to 18, with the vice president’s lead increasing to 2.1% when Stein, West and Oliver are included in surveys.
I think Fetterman has made an honest valuation. I do believe Pennsylvania will choose DJT.
America needs a real Peaceful Warrior and a real Patriotic Fighter….We are soooo lucky that we have a leader like President Trump. He will never leave us….
GOD BLESS AMERICA ! GOD BLESS TRUMP! GOD BLESS OUR VETERAN PLANET!!!
As Trump’s granddaughter said, “make Americans great again”. It is too dangerous to continue down this slope like the last four years with Harris and her side kick at the helm.
Biggest surprise of the 2022 election is Fetterman . He actually better then the vast majority of our lousy Rhinos. Wasn’t afraid to speak up against the squad , when it came to backing Israel. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him jump ship to independent. There’s so much wrong with the current Marxist Communist Democrats. Should be a whole bunch leave the party that deserted America. Really hard to admit when you have been deceived by the Indoctrination of our Education System and Corrupt News Media.
Trump needs` to wake up and keep going to Pennsylvania, he grabs that state it’s over for kamala,
it’s a fossil fuels state that depends on oil, that state is hurting bad since Biden put the clamps on oil, there whole economy depends on oil, there unemployment is so bad that they can’t take a hit from kamala, for another 4 years, sure trump hit off big in New York, but he will never get there vote 5 to 1 ratio on being Democrats over republicans. And please someone tell him to focus what the Dems did to this country, stop talking hate and rapping people, if this election is lost it’s his ego Rederick that will create a loss for the Republicans, As the republicans are a weak party
as it is.