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DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
Fri Jun 28, 2024, 09:55 AM Jun 2024

'Chill out': John Fetterman whacks 'vultures' calling on Biden to drop out

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on Friday hammered Democrats who are calling on President Joe Biden to drop out of the race after his widely panned debate performance on Thursday evening.

Writing on Twitter, Fetterman pushed back at Democrats who are anonymously sniping at Biden and he used his own experience with a poor debate performance back in 2022 to emphasize that such moments do not doom campaigns.

"I refuse to join the Democratic vultures on Biden’s shoulder after the debate," he wrote. "No one knows more than me that a rough debate is not the sum total of the person and their record. Morning-after thermonuclear beat downs from my race from the debate and polling geniuses like 538 predicted l’d lose by 2. And what happened? The only seat to flip and won by a historic margin (+5)."

He then urged his fellow Democrats to buck up and bluntly said, "Chill the f--k out."

https://www.rawstory.com/john-fetterman-2668629455/

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Fetterman's been there: 'GOP takes indirect aim at Fetterman's health in Pennsylvania Senate race' sop Jun 2024 #1

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1. Fetterman's been there: 'GOP takes indirect aim at Fetterman's health in Pennsylvania Senate race'
Fri Jun 28, 2024, 10:08 AM
Jun 2024

"Republicans are...bashing the Democrat for not being more transparent about the stroke that hospitalized him four days before he handily won the May 17 primary."

"The Fetterman campaign waited two days to disclose his hospitalization, issued a statement that confused cardiologists and later acknowledged that he had a previously undisclosed heart condition that led doctors to install a pacemaker with a defibrillator last month. He was released from the hospital several days after the election."

"On Thursday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, or NRSC, released a web ad that featured news coverage of pundits and reporters discussing the Fetterman campaign’s evolving explanations of his health and hospitalization, asking, 'Does John Fetterman Have a Problem Telling the Truth?'”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/gop-takes-indirect-aim-fettermans-health-pennsylvania-senate-race-rcna32858

Republicans will bring it all up again in '28, and attack Fetterman for his poor driving record. That's what they do

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