Potential candidates for a 2028 US Senate primary race against Sen. John Fetterman (D) were quick to pounce on the latest Wall Street Journal report revealing damning text messages which suggest he is unwilling to do the job.
Texts and communications obtained from Fetterman’s staff by the Wall Street Journal reveal that Fetterman refused to attend the funeral of three fallen York County officers who were killed in an ambush last year because the funeral was too long.
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They also show that Fetterman claimed to have a stomach bug to avoid a meeting with three paralyzed veterans, only to go on Fox News and talk about Israel later in the day, showing no signs of sickness. Texts also reveal he skipped a meeting with a state lawmaker to instead meet with former college basketball coach Bruce Pearl.
“There is a lot I could say about this report of John Fetterman’s pathetic behavior as a Senator,” But between the laziness, disrespect, and willingness to carry water for a foreign government, it shows us something we already know: this man has no sense of duty,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Allegheny) said on X.
“He is not up for the high office he was elected to — and we in Pennsylvania will do something about it in 2028.”
Deluzio, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Philadelphia), and former Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Allegheny) are rumored to be among the Democrats eyeing Fetterman’s seat in 2028.
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Shortly after the story was published, Boyle called Fetterman a “disgrace” on X and added that Pennsylvania “deserves better than a lazy trust fund baby who is too lazy to do the job.”
Fetterman began falling out of favor with Pennsylvania Democratic voters after visiting President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort following the 2024 election and backing some of Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks.
Since then, polling has shown a historic drop in support for Fetterman among Democrats, and recent polls from PennLive’s Morning Scrapple and the Bravo Group found that 75% of Pennsylvania Democrats prefer “someone else” over Fetterman.
“ I’ve been outraged by his conduct and his attitude for a long time, but to see confirmation of it like this, it just goes against everything I was ever taught about public service, and I think it’s obvious he just needs to quit,” Lamb told The Keystone.
Lamb downplayed any speculation about a potential 2028 Senate bid and instead kept the conversation focused on Fetterman’s record.
“You’re talking about a guy who has never worked, and when someone’s parents pay for their lifestyle for 20-some years it’s not surprising that he will act like a spoiled rich kid who does what he wants to do and not what the people who sent him there want him to do,” he said.
Fetterman did not provide comment to the Wall Street Journal.
