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John Fetterman: “Polling reflects that [I am] more popular with Republicans…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Published March 17, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:47

I'm not. I'm not. I'm mystified by it. If you look at my, you know, like, my votes and my views really haven't changed, and I'm truly mystified by that. Polling reflects that [I am] more popular with Republicans than Democrats. I can't explain that. I truly can't. Well, by the way, I looked at a poll, approval rating was like 60%. Yeah. In Pennsylvania. Yeah. (17:47–17:49)

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“That was the most expensive Senate race at that point.”
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“If showing ID to vote, just basically that 84% of Americans agree with that, and then 71% of Democrats have no problem with that.”
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“Wisconsin elected a very, very liberal justice, and they passed in their constitution to show ID 2 to 1.”
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“The border's a disaster. You know, when you start looking at the... it's close to 300,000 encounters... that's the size of Pittsburgh…”
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“About 66 to 70% [of people ICE is grabbing up] have some kinds of criminality.”
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“There's 15 million Jews in the world, in a world of 8 billion people.”
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“They were offered a two state solution... they were offered 96% of the West Bank. They had East Jerusalem as the capital.”
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“I was the only [Democrat] to shake [the President's] hand.”
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“We can't ever allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb.”
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“Last year, the President did something about [Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb] to really set it back and really damage it severely.”
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“My heart stopped and there was kind of touch and go at that time.”
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“Thankfully I've made a full recovery.”
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“I use captioning to make sure I exactly thing when I'm having very specific.”
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“I had a really ugly primary and they would try to define me as a racist.”
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“As a four term mayor of a majority black town in Western Pa. 70%.”
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“I haven't voted for some of the big signature kinds of things of the president.”
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“I did flip the seat.”
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“To accuse Israel as genocide and you're sitting in Germany. Like, can you, like, talk about tone deaf and just ignorant to the history of…”
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“I'll always pick country over party.”
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“We as a country, we have to find a way forward.”
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“There's a protest that's coming to my home next week.”
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“If we are protesting a Democrat that flipped a red seat, maybe the problems with you then and the base.”
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“Pennsylvania picked us, and that's why. That's a testament for being honest.”
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“I never asked to change the dress code because I was never gonna give a speech, you know, on the floor, standing here dressed.”
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“I was the only Democrat that stood up and clapped for [the removal of] Maduro.”
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“The Democrats didn't show up at that speech last night.”
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“The shutdowns have been incredibly difficult.”
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“I'm the only Democrat. That's the wrong thing to do.”
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“It has no impact or force any changes in ICE.”
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“Democrats aren't afraid of the president. You know who we're afraid of? The base.”
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“It's wrong to shut our government down.”
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“Abolishing ICE was always one of those... the worst things that Dems always ever said.”
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“That's absurd. It's like, you know, like, like that's, that's part of the toxic parts of the Democratic Party.”
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“Mayorkas was, was a disaster [under the Biden administration].”
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“Katie Britt came to me and saying I need a Democratic co sponsor of the Lake and Lyrae bill. And I'm like, I'm your guy. I'm your guy. And…”
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“I've had conversations with the president.”
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“President Biden is certainly not at the top of his game.”
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“I fundamentally believe that [Biden] was the one guy that could actually have a chance to win.”
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“Anyone that spent time on the ground in Pennsylvania knew that [Biden] was going to win.”
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“If you want to show ID, that's not Jim Crow.”
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“This is our special ally.”
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“We would never in our nation would ever tolerate ever if Canadians were firing rockets into Syracuse.”
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“This is the only democracy in that region.”
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“The ayatollah wants to drink our blood out of their boot.”
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“That's why I support the president, what he's done with it.”
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“Energy security is national security.”
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“Senator Sanders think we should have a moratorium on data centers.”
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“If we start having these moratoriums it's like that's handing that to the Chinese.”
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“If you arrest someone that's engaging in some kind of criminal. Absolutely.”
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“The Democrat Party can't become Luddites and become anti AI.”
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“No, I, I, no, of course not. That's, that's, that's a, that's truly absurd.”
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“I'll probably be the only Democrat in the Senate that'll vote [the Iranian war powers thing] down.”
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“If I be the only Democrat, I'll be the only Democrat to vote down those war powers for Iran.”
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“Pennsylvania elected me and Dave McCormick.”
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