Democratic Sen. John Fetterman was a surprise virtual guest at Wednesday’s Republican convention in Dallas, Texas, according to a report from Axios.
The senator’s slide to the right under the second Trump administration and end of Joe Biden’s presidency is well-documented, but his appearance in a video explicitly for the use of Republican campaigning is still a new development for the Pennsylvania senator who won a close race to protect a Democratic Senate majority in 2022 and once took a highly oppositional tone to Donald Trump and the Maga-fied Republican Party.
Fetterman’s appearance came in the form of a video praising both Trump and his colleague in the Pennsylvania Senate delegation, Republican Dave McCormick. McCormick spoke Wednesday evening at the convention. In the video, Fetterman also rejected “socialism”, which he has linked to a wave of progressive candidates winning Democratic primaries in New York and other states.
“I am a common-sense Democrat. I am always going to stand with America. I’m always going to reject the extremes and socialism,” said Fetterman in the video.
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