{"id":279210,"date":"2026-09-04T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279210\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:34:10","slug":"pennsylvania-democrats-denounce-fetterman-as-a-disgrace-after-wsj-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279210\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Democrats denounce Fetterman as a \u2018disgrace\u2019 after WSJ report"},"content":{"rendered":"

A growing number of Pennsylvania Democrats have coalesced around a common cause: their frustration with the state\u2019s senior Democratic senator.<\/p>\n

Two years out from the end of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s term<\/a>, some Democrats in the state are demanding he resign from office, or are rallying voters to oust him in 2028. Several of them have taken to social media to air their grievances in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report<\/a> that described multiple instances of Fetterman skipping constituent meetings in Washington, dodging committee hearings and neglecting key responsibilities in his home state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is a decent bone left in your body, just quit,\u201d former Rep. Conor Lamb wrote in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s an insult to decent people in our state for you to treat them and the office this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamb served two terms in the House before losing Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic Senate primary to Fetterman by a wide margin in 2022. He has since made a name for himself by filling the void Fetterman\u2019s absence has left at town halls and rallies across the state.<\/p>\n

His call for Fetterman to resign included a screenshot from the Wall Street Journal article describing three paralyzed military veterans from rural Pennsylvania arriving at the senator\u2019s Washington office for a planned meeting, only to find Fetterman absent. The senator, according to the Journal, had told his staff he was ill, only to appear in the office later that day with no apparent symptoms to prepare to discuss Israel and the Iran war during a live TV hit on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Fetterman has been a divisive figure since he was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. He frequently bucks his party on key votes, is a staunch supporter of Israel and has been described by ex-staffers as \u201cTrump\u2019s favorite Democrat<\/a>.\u201d The senator reportedly met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida weeks after Trump won the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

But reports<\/a> of his increasingly erratic behavior and absences from committee meetings, votes and meetings with his own constituents have drawn increased scrutiny over his ability to serve in high office.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSydney Carruth is a breaking news reporter covering national politics and policy for MS NOW. You can send her tips from a non-work device on Signal at SydneyCarruth.46 or follow her work on X and Bluesky.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing number of Pennsylvania Democrats have coalesced around a common cause: their frustration with the state\u2019s senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-279210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279210","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=279210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}