Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman likes to mix it up on social media.
It’s a bad habit that gets Fetterman into trouble more often than not.
And John Fetterman made this big bet that’s about to go terribly wrong.
Republicans are fighting to win back control of the United States Senate.
Democrats hold a 51 to 49 seat advantage, meaning the GOP needs to flip two seats in order to claim the majority.
2024 also sees the GOP facing its most favorable map in years with Democrats defending 23 seats compared to just 10 held by Republicans.
Republicans are targeting Democrat-held seats in Ohio, Montana, and West Virginia – three states Donald Trump figures to win easily.
But party leaders also believe if things break right this year, seats in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania could also be in play.
John Fetterman tried to put on a brave front about his party’s chances of keeping their majority by linking to a Wall Street Journal piece written by RINO strategist Karl Rove headlined “Democrats Will Probably Lose the Senate.”
Fetterman trolled Rove by referring to him as “turd blossom” – the nickname given to him by former President George W. Bush – and predicted Democrats would keep the Senate, claiming Republicans nominated too many “MAGA retreads.”
“I like our odds, turd blossom. We improved our margin in ’22 when everyone was calling for a Dem bloodbath-ahem flipping PA- and there’s still a sh! tty roster in ’24 with several MAGA retreads. Humble yourself,” Fetterman posted on X.
In his article, Rove pointed to the simple math that Republicans only need to win two seats and there are three red states where Democrats are swimming upstream against the tide.
“Democrats have lots of problems. Republican Gov. Jim Justice is virtually guaranteed to take the West Virginia seat of retiring Sen. Joe Manchin. Democrats hold two other seats in states Donald Trump won in the last two presidential elections: Montana (which Mr. Trump carried by 16 points in 2024) and Ohio (8 points). Flipping them, too, would result in a 52-48 GOP Senate,” Rove stated.
Republicans fell short of winning the Senate in 2022 as RINO Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went out of his way to sabotage conservatives like Blake Masters in a fit of pique that the establishment didn’t get to hand-pick a group of RINOs to serve as the party’s roster of Senate candidates.
With polls showing Donald Trump leading Joe Biden, and Republicans clinging to the majority in the House of Representatives, winning control of the Senate could give the GOP unified control over the government and the ability to push through Trump’s agenda.
