DALLAS, Texas (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman made a surprise appearance at the GOP midterm convention via video, saying he will always \u201creject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the roughly one-minute video introducing GOP Sen. Dave McCormick on stage, Fetterman explained that he is still a Democrat but condemned the rise of far-left voices in his own party. Fetterman said he will work with President Trump to defend \u201cthe steel way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll work with President Trump to fight and defend the steel way of life right here in the steel valley,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Calling himself a \u201ccommon sense Democrat\u201d who will \u201cstand with America,\u201d Fetterman praised McCormick as \u201cthe kind of senator that gets the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud to count him as my friend,\u201d Fetterman said.<\/p>\n
Fetterman is one of Trump\u2019s closest Democratic allies in Congress. The video is a shocking move for the first-term senator, who skipped his own party\u2019s convention in 2024. Fetterman, who is strongly pro-Israel, has spent months distancing himself from the rest of his party, voting for some of Trump\u2019s nominees and backing the president\u2019s military actions in the Middle East. <\/p>\n
In recent weeks, Fetterman Democrats have been further alarmed by his launch of a joint fundraising committee with McCormick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS, Texas (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman made a surprise appearance at the GOP midterm convention via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282776","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\/282776","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=282776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}