Fetterman Didn’t Tell Staff About Convention Speech

To Land Fetterman, GOP Went First to His Colleague

Republican strategics went haunting for an attention-getting moment to schedule during last week's GOP midterm convention. They found it in Democratic Sen. John Fetterman. To broker the deal, Axios reports, they turned to Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, Fetterman's Pennsylvania glue and friend. Republican sources said McCormick floated the idea in...

Fetterman kept his staff in the dark on jarring GOP-engineered convention cameo: report

Republicans engineered a jarring moment of their first-ever midterm convention by quietly recruiting a sitting Democrat, and the senator signed on without telling a single member of his own staff, according to a new Axios report.The account reveals how Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania came to appear on the Dallas convention's big screen this month, praising Republican Sen. Dave McCormick and vowing to work with President Donald Trump to prote…

Fetterman Didn’t Tell Staff About Convention Speech

Axios reports: According to three sources familiar with the talks, the idea for Fetterman to make the appearance emerged over the summer, as organizers of the Dallas convention sought what they called an “Oh sh*t” moment. They were looking to drive home a key midterm message — that Democrats are too extreme. Organizers discussed featuring … The post Fetterman Didn’t Tell Staff About Convention Speech appeared first on Joe.My.God..