Featured News

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Blasts Republicans For Turning The GOP Into A Trump Beauty Pageant

Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 12:32 pm

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who recently announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate , said on Tuesday that the Republican Party in the Keystone State has gone full MAGA.

Fetterman predicted that in the upcoming Senate primary race, the GOP hopefuls will be climbing all over each other to be the most Trump-like candidate.

“I can almost guarantee you, whoever the Republicans nominate for their Senate candidate is going to be a Trump simp and the primary is just going to be a beauty pageant of who can be the bigger simp to win the primary,” Fetterman said.

“That’s the state of the affairs on the ground here in Pennsylvania in Republican politics to win the primary,” he added.

Video:

Fetterman said:

Trump is very much a cult figure in Pennsylvania in these small counties. And the key to Pennsylvania Republican politics is this phalanx of small rural counties, it’s roughly 55 or so. He’s intensely popular in some of these counties and when you stack one on top of the other, you need — if you go astray in any of those, it carries over. So they know they can’t win statewide. Now, I can almost guarantee you, whoever the Republicans nominate for their Senate candidate is going to be a Trump simp and the primary is just going to be a beauty pageant of who can be the bigger simp to win the primary, because that’s the state of the affairs on the ground here in Pennsylvania in Republican politics to win the primary. Not the general, of course, but the primary.

Pennsylvania voters chose to fire Trump last year

Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania last November by tens of thousands of votes after he carried the state in 2016. In other words, voters in the state chose to fire him and hire Joe Biden.

That makes it all the more puzzling that Republicans in the state are doubling down on Trumpism, particularly after the disgraced former president incited a deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol.

If the GOP nominates a Trumpist as they seem so eager to do, it will give Democrats a prime chance to pick up a seat in Pennsylvania and potentially expand their Senate majority.

Follow Sean Colarossi on Facebook and Twitter

Sean Colarossi

Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.

Recent Posts

Trump And House GOP’s Promise To Not Cut Social Security Is Total Nonsense

Trump got House Republicans to not use reconciliation to cut Social Security. The problem is…

4 days ago

Trump And Mike Johnson Agree To Apparently Cut Americans’ Healthcare To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich

President-elect Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson have agreed to a deal that would fund the…

5 days ago

Dozens Of Republicans Humiliate Trump/Musk By Voting Down CR

Donald Trump demanded that the debt limit be raised as part of the government funding…

5 days ago

Trump And Vance Blame Biden For Elon Musk Caused Chaos

Donald Trump and JD Vance are blaming President Biden for the havoc caused by Elon…

6 days ago

House Republicans Are Falling Apart And Now Mike Johnson Could Be Toast

The first little bit of pressure involving passing a bill to keep the government open…

7 days ago

Elon Musk Melts Down As House Republicans Show Him That He Has No Power

X boss Elon Musk is throwing a tantrum on his social media platform as House…

7 days ago