Fetterman Reveals Trump’s Special Bond With Pennsylvania Voters
During an interview at The Atlantic Festival, Democratic Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) remarked that former President Donald Trump shares a “special” connection with voters in Pennsylvania, a bond that intensified following the assassination attempt on him during a campaign rally on July 13. The incident left Trump with minor injuries while seriously wounding two attendees and resulting in the death of former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore.
Fetterman stated that he would not “mansplain” the situation to Vice President Kamala Harris. However, he acknowledged that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a “fantastic” candidate in 2016 despite ultimately losing to Trump. “Trump has created a special kind of a hold … he’s remade the party and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania,” Fetterman told interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg, noting that this connection deepened after the assassination attempt.
FETTERMAN: “Trump has created a special kind of a hold… he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania and I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt.”
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Current polling shows Harris leading Trump by 1.0% in Pennsylvania, according to the RealClearPolling average, with her lead increasing to 2.17% when factoring in other candidates like Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein, independent Cornel West, and Libertarian Chase Oliver.
Fetterman cautioned that although Clinton was ahead in Pennsylvania polling during the 2016 race, she ultimately lost the swing state. “Everybody thought that it was in the bag, but that’s not the energy and the other kinds of things that were really consistent with what I’m witnessing all across,” he explained.
Senator John Fetterman was predicting in the beginning of August that Trump would win Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/9E6eoTrYVR
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In national polling, Trump trails Harris by 1.9% in the RealClearPolling average from September 3 to 18, with her lead widening to 2.1% when including Stein, West, and Oliver.
