John Fetterman: Both sides of the aisle are 'hoping that I die'

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman thinks that both sides of the aisle are praying for his death, he told the New York Times.

“What I have found out over the last couple of years is that the right, and now the left, are hoping that I die," Fetterman said. "There are ones that are rooting for another blood clot. They have both now been wishing that I die."

Fetterman has been criticized by Democrats for announcing, "I'm not a progressive" in an NBC News interview earlier this week. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.”

Veteran Philadelphia Inquirerreporter and columnist Will Bunch penned an op-ed this week blaming Fetterman for a bait and switch from young, more progressive voters. He blamed it for the anger young voters feel toward politics.

He began the column with a quote from Fetterman after winning the Democratic primary in the state: “We have started a progressive movement here in Pennsylvania. It’s not going away. This isn’t over. This is not how our story ends.”

Bunch wrote that Fetterman hasn't turned out to be the man he thought.

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The Democrat has made it clear that he is firmly beside Israel's defense against Hamas despite the high civilian casualty rate.

"I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a secured border," Fetterman said to the Times. "I would never put Dreamers in harm’s way, or support any kind of cruelty or mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people. But it’s a reasonable conversation to talk about the border.”

According to the report Fetterman prides himself on passing what he calls his own common sense test before he agrees to party leaders. The example from the Times is that he has an American prisoners of war flag and an LGBTQ pride flag. The two are not antithetical despite the description.

Meanwhile, Republicans believe he's been taken over by a clone.

Read the full report here.