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John Fetterman advises Democrats to remain calm and brace themselves for the next four years. The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania believes it will be a challenging period.
Written by Jess Bidgood
Senator John Fetterman was not present in Washington during the initial Trump administration, but he has some suggestions for how Democrats should approach the second administration.
He is hoping that his party will come to terms with their losses and relax a bit. He is urging his party to refrain from making hasty judgments about what went wrong in the last election, as there is plenty of time for Democrats to analyze and strategize in the next four years.
Fetterman has previous experience challenging President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party. He was elected in 2022 after recovering from a serious stroke and defeating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who had Trump’s endorsement and is now chosen to lead Medicare by the president-elect. With the Democratic Party facing defeats in states like Pennsylvania, where Trump won over Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.7 percentage points and Bob Casey, a three-term Democratic senator, lost his position, I reached out to Fetterman for his perspective.
The chat we had is the beginning of a series of discussions I will have in this newsletter regarding the future direction of the Democratic Party. Feel free to reach out and suggest any other individuals you would like to hear from.
The interview was modified to make it shorter and easier to understand.
This year, many parties currently in power faced challenges or were defeated in elections globally, with a notable trend in Western democracies. What are your thoughts on whether the Democratic Party’s defeats in November were unavoidable?
This is a question that deserves consideration. I had a lot of worry about a few isolated incidents, one of them being the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. It is important to remember the gravity of that event and how it could have had devastating consequences for the nation if the target had been killed. The intense emotions and actions that followed the incident were evident to me while I was in Pennsylvania. It made me realize that the situation could have had serious repercussions.
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