More than half of recently surveyed Democratic voters in Pennsylvania disapprove of Sen. John Fetterman’s, D-Pa., job performance, results released Wednesday show.
Fifty-four percent of the state’s registered Democrats said in a conducted by Quinnipiac University over the last week, which included over 1,500 participants, that they dislike how the lawmaker has handled his job. A third of the Democrats said the opposite.
Sen. Fetterman has been criticized by members of his party for at odds with many of his liberal colleagues. The senator has been a firm supporter of Israel in its war with Hamas while many congressional Democrats call for an end to U.S. military aid to the Jewish state. He also claimed his party refused to condemn violent Los Angeles protests against the Trump administration earlier this year, although some politicians did.
Meanwhile, has gained support from Republicans, the Quinnipiac poll shows. Nearly two-thirds of registered GOP voters expressed approval for his job performance. Independent voters are split on the matter, with 43% either liking or disliking his work.
The survey’s history shows that opinions on Sen. Fetterman appear to have flipped as the Biden administration ended and President Donald Trump took over. Eight in 10 Democrats had a favorable opinion of the lawmaker in January 2024, while two-thirds of Republicans disliked him. Independents had similar opinions as they do now.
Sen. Fetterman took office in 2023 with support from progressive voters. He defeated Republican candidate Mehmet Oz by nearly five percentage points after a primary election against then-Rep. Conor Lamb, who was viewed as more moderate.
As Sen. Fetterman spoke more independently of the Democratic Party, speculation rose that he would leave to become unaffiliated or register as a Republican. The lawmaker has repeatedly dismissed the idea, however, and affirmed Sunday he will not switch parties.
“I’m not going to switch, you know, but I’m just going to be an independent voice in the Democratic Party,” Sen. Fetterman said in an interview on Fox Business. “I’m not gonna be afraid if people – I mean, and if there are groups attacking a Democrat, you know, the last one in Pennsylvania, then that’s, to me, that’s part of the problem, you know, in our party.”
The senator noted that he isn’t the type of lawmaker to call people Nazis or fascists, associations made by some Democrats, and explained he’ll continue to show independent thinking and viewpoints, no matter if they’re also held by Republicans.
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