{"id":264476,"date":"2026-08-13T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264476\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:20:15","slug":"fetterman-says-he-wont-campaign-against-fellow-pennsylvania-sen-mccormick-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264476\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman says he won’t campaign against fellow Pennsylvania Sen. McCormick"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman<\/a> said he wouldn\u2019t campaign against Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick because he couldn\u2019t campaign against his friend.<\/p>\n

During an interview with the Washington Examiner, Fetterman was asked if he would support McCormick if he decided to run for Senate again in four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I would absolutely never move against my friend,\u201d Fetterman said.<\/p>\n

He called McCormick a \u201cgreat guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two Pennsylvania senators have done many media hits together and co-sponsored bipartisan legislation together, according to The Hill newspaper.<\/a><\/p>\n

McCormick recently praised Fetterman during an interview over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s willing to stand up and call out the craziness that\u2019s happening in his party,\u201d McCormick said. \u201cIt\u2019s made him unpopular with some of the people in his party.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been some reports of Fetterman potentially flipping parties and becoming a Republican, but he has denied all of those reports.<\/p>\n

“I have had conversations with him in the past, as have many of my colleagues about the challenges he faces in his caucus,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters at the Capitol last month.<\/a> “And, you know, there are many of us who I think would welcome the opportunity to have him join the Republican conference, but, you know, ultimately that’s a decision that’s up to him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said he wouldn\u2019t campaign against Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111659,3145,6632,4283,111660,28,30,29,10631,4519],"class_list":["post-264476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bipartisan-legislation","tag-dave-mccormick","tag-democratic","tag-john-fetterman","tag-party-switch","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-republican","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}