Pennsylvania will decide the 2024 election.
One top Democrat in the state is trying to sound the alarm as loudly as humanly possible.
And John Fetterman made one confession about Trump that is game over for Kamala Harris.
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) had words of warning for his party in a podcast interview with the New York Times.
The Pennsylvania Democrat said the left needed to end their eight year obsession with trying to figure out why Trump has the most loyal political base anyone has ever seen.
With less than two weeks to go before the election, Fetterman stated that the Democrats need to wrap their minds around the fact that the intensity of Trump’s support is a reality.
“There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,” Fetterman explained. “And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing.”
Fetterman recounted a story about an event he recently did in a rural county where someone set up a “superstore” 100 feet long to sell Trump merchandise.
Fetterman added this type of devotion was “special” and that Democrats needed to cope with just how expansive Trump’s support really is.
“I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real,” Fetterman added.
Fetterman continued on telling the Times’ LuLu Garcia-Navarra that Tesla CEO and SpaceX and X owner, Elon Musk, endorsing Trump and campaigning for Trump worried him.
Fetterman compared Musk to Tony Stark – the irreverent billionaire who suited up as Iron Man portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“And now [Elon] Musk is joining him,” Fetterman stated. “I mean, to a lot of people, that’s Tony Stark. That’s the world’s richest guy. And he’s obviously, and undeniably, a brilliant guy, and he’s saying, Hey, that’s my guy for president. That’s going to really matter.”
Fetterman described himself as “alarmed” over Musk decamping to Pennsylvania to hold events because Musk, in some ways, is a “bigger star than Trump” Fetterman exclaimed.
Like most politicians, Fetterman usually dismisses endorsements, but Fetterman said he was “concerned” because Musk is different.
“Endorsements, they’re really not meaningful often, but this one is, I think,” Fetterman concluded. “That has me concerned.”
Musk possesses massive reach not accessible to anyone else thanks to owning X along with having 200 million followers.
Recent polls from Franklin and Marshall, Emerson, Atlan Intel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen all show Trump in the lead in Pennsylvania which speaks to the strength and intensity of the coalition Trump has built.
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