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John Fetterman: “We were so wrong about eliminating the filibuster.”

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

John Fetterman: I Didn't Change, the Democrats Did

Published May 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 40:13

Donald Trump wants to get rid of the filibuster. You, I believe, have spoken positive about getting rid of the filibuster. Oh yeah, we, the, we Democrats, We were so wrong about eliminating the filibuster. I, I was wrong too. I'll be the first person to say we were so wrong. Thank, thank God people prevailed and I think history vindicated someone like Cinema and Manchin to stand for that. (40:13–40:16)

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Asserts that eliminating the Senate filibuster was a mistake.

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“We have the most generous and the largest immigration program of any country in the world already.”
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“The mayor in Seattle, she's an absolute socialist, if not more.”
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“$2 trillion of, of just migrate have migrated out of, of these states too.”
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“In Maine, for example, Graham Platner, he's. He avowed communist.”
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“In 2016 it was much more about the, the minimum wage and some other very basic kinds of thing.”
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“I was officializing a gay marriage when that was illegal, and I was, I was happy to get arrested on that.”
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“All of our blue cities have become overwhelmed. New York, Chicago, Denver, Boston, all those were overwhelmed with, with, with migrants.”
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“The immigration community is actually driving a lot of those economies all across Pennsylvania.”
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“I absolutely support Zinn and those things, as long as it's legal, safe too.”
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“I think your path for wellness, psychedelics, whatever, I think it all should be legal without judgment and without punishment or a criminal…”
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“He just came back from the most remarkable political comeback in American history, as far as I'm aware of.”
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“A nuclear Iran is much more expensive than any of the costs that we've incurred thus far in this, in the Iranian war.”
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“Every single American president wanted to prevent North Korea to turning a nuclear power and they failed.”
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