Kamala Harris never expected to hear this from an ally.
But John Fetterman felt he had no choice.
And John Fetterman had some surprisingly brutal news for Kamala Harris.
As American Patriot Daily reports:
Real Clear Politics shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by 0.7 points.
Quinnipiac’s poll found Kamala Harris holding a six-point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania.
Democrats and their allies in the media grew cocky over these poll numbers as the candidate who wins Pennsylvania is likely to win the election.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is not among those measuring the drapes.
In an interview at the 2024 Atlantic Festival, Fetterman warned that Kamala Harris was making tactical errors and was underestimating Trump’s reservoir of support in Pennsylvania.
Fetterman said he thought Kamala Harris calling Trump a “convicted felon” was a mistake.
“I never agreed with our approach talking about how he’s a convicted felon,” Fetterman began.
Fetterman hinted that he thought the case Alvin Bragg brought was a political show trial and that in the wake of Trump getting shot in the head by an assassin, such language only made Trump more sympathetic.
“I mean, I thought Democrats, we were the party that was all about second chances and that we’re not going to condemn somebody based on mistakes or things in that kind of situation. And I was convinced, too, that those kinds of trials – it’s not gonna have an impact on that. It’s like, what’s left? He’s been impeached twice. Now, it’s been two attempted assassinations – one where a bullet actually hit him,” Fetterman added.
Fetterman also explained that Democrats shouldn’t underestimate how much anger there is in states like Pennsylvania at Kamala Harris for runaway inflation and open borders.
Trump still remained the vessel for that frustration.
“I also want people to understand, you know, and it’s not science, but there is, there is energy and there is kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania, and people are very committed and – Trump is gonna be strong and we have to respect that. You can’t even understand it and it’s not like a science that can explain it but you just have to know that it’s real,” Fetterman stated.
Fetterman cautioned that he saw Trump support everywhere he traveled in the state and that Trump – the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since 1988 – held a special bond with the voters that only grew more intense in the wake of the assassination attempt.
“You see that everywhere,” Fetterman said. “Trump has created a special kind of a hold… and he’s remade the party and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania. I think that only deepened after that first assassination attempt.”
Fetterman’s advice for Democrats was to ignore polls like Quinnipiac.
Quinnipiac’s past Pennsylvania polls were wrong.
Their final poll in 2016 had Clinton up by five points and the final Quinnipiac poll in 2020 showed Biden up by seven.
Both polls missed by six points.
Fetterman talks to voters throughout the state and visits every community.
And Fetterman knows the support for Trump is deeper and stronger than the polls show.