Senate Democrats Try to Make Nice with Fetterman

Senate Democrats try to make nice with Fetterman

This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s partnership with NOTUS, a nonpartisan news organization that covers government and politics with the fresh eyes of early career journalists and the expertise of veteran reporters. Senate Democrats heaped praise on their colleague John Fetterman this week amid fresh speculation he might leave the party. The iconoclastic Pennsylvania Democrat has often seemed like a senator without a party in re…

Senate Democrats struggle to placate volatile 'iconoclast' Fetterman

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) has become one of the most talked-about Democrats in the U.S. Senate. While many progressives are expressing frustration with Fetterman's more centrist positions, the Pennsylvania senator has a vocal defender in "Real Time" host Bill Maher — who is attacking progressives for what he views as purity tests and emphasizing that Fetterman represents a swing state, not a deep blue state. If Democrats are going to …