dean obeidallah on fetterman: says he committed election fraud and should resign

[orleans]

https://substack.com/home/post/p-190011897

Pennsylvania “Democrat” John Fetterman is not just a fraud--he has committed election fraud. This is a person who ran as a progressive Democrat for the US Senate in 2022—which in fact is why he won the nomination over moderate Democrat Connor Lamb.

But now in just a few short years, Fetterman has gone MAGA. We’ve seen him in just the past two years visit Trump at Mar-A-Lago after the 2024 election, vote for anti-immigration legislation, undermine Democrats on budget talks and more. The latest examples came Wednesday when Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote with the GOP Senators to allow Trump to continue waging his illegal war on Iran with no restrictions. Add to that, Fetterman also peddled anti-Muslim bigotry lying that a well-known Muslim American journalist was in mourning because the Ayatollah was killed.

Yes, I know many point to the stroke Fetterman had in the 2022 campaign as the reason for this change. But the reason is not relevant. Fetterman ran as a Bernie Sanders loving progressive but he’s now “Trump’s favorite Democrat.”

If Fetterman had a shred of decency, he would resign from the Senate and then run in the special election that followed as a MAGA Republican. If the voters of Pennsylvania want two MAGA Senators, that is their choice. But they deserve a refund on this fraud!

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dean lists a number of examples that shows fetterman is not the progressive he once claimed to be.
he also says fetterman has a 77% job approval rating (from republican) and a 22% rating among dems

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. His senate career will end with his current term. Nt

[QueerDuck]

3. PA and the US deserve better.

[Bo Zarts]

10. If that were tomorrow, it would not be soon enough ..

[QueerDuck]

2. His fans and defenders quickly embraced the empty promises rather than...

... examining the character and history of the man himself. I've read comments from those who had previously criticized him harshly, and they're now saying "we tried to warn you". Look like they were right all along.

[Just Jerome]

4. His problems are obvious,

and he may well be a fraud, but is what he did actually election fraud?

[Wiz Imp]

8. Of course not. That is a ridiculous assertion by Obeidallah.

[ZDU]

5. Vote Him Out

Go. Went. Gone.
Or kick his ass out....

[Greg_In_SF]

6. That's not

election fraud

[Kingofalldems]

15. Well looky here.

[Quiet Em]

18. He doesn't mean it literally.

He's saying Fetterman is a fraud and is not the person he portrayed himself to be when running for office.

[pcdb]

19. But he literally said it.

"John Fetterman is not just a fraud--he has committed election fraud"

[KPN]

7. Don't know about election fraud, but Fetterman's always been

a fraud looking at it in retrospect. I’m not sure that stroke he had wasn’t more about the personal stress he was putting himself through by presenting as a progressive. The stroke didn’t change him, it only convinced him to drop his fraudulent political persona. Just another f’ing grifter.

[Blumancru]

9. I know Fetterman, or knew him anyway

I have never been so disappointed in someone I supported. I will never give a campaign contribution again.
I think it was a combination of his stroke and blackmail by Trump. They may have threatened to deport his family.

[orleans]

20. why would they deport his family? i guess i'm not that familiar with his personal stuff. nt

[Cirsium]

11. Fraudulent

While it doesn't meet the definition of "election fraud" it is still fraud. Getting elected on the basis of one set of positions and then switching your positions once you are in office is fraud.

[dalton99a]

12. Fetterman is practically a MAGA robot.

[chowder66]

13. Here is his progressive scorecard.

Senator Fetterman, John
D-Pennsylvania

Composite Progressive Score: 83.74%

Crucial Progressive Score: 77.91%

details here....
https://progressivepunch.org/proto/record.jsp?member=412948&year=2026&close=true&classified=all&topic=


He gets bad grades here based on the State tilt.
https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate

[thesquanderer]

14. I guess DU's TOS don't apply to Fetterman? (n/t)

[Kingofalldems]

16. He defrauded the voters by claiming to be a Democrat.

I don't care how many laugh emojis the MAGAts put up. It was fraud.

[mcar]

17. Sorry Dean, but you and your fellow progressives were conned*

Many of us offered warnings based on Fetterman's previous racist actions. Progressives refused to listen, because he said the things you wanted to hear.

Lamb was a much better candidate. Now here we are.

*You're making the same mistake with Platner in Maine. Another white dude with a questionable, to say the least, past - adult past - and progressives are ignoring those red flags because he says the things you want to hear.