{"id":596067,"date":"2026-05-04T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596067"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:18:56","slug":"trump-offers-sen-fetterman-his-total-and-complete-endorsement-if-switches-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596067","title":{"rendered":"Trump offers Sen. Fetterman his \u2018total and complete endorsement\u2019 if switches parties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, is getting a first-hand look at President Donald Trump\u2019s deal-making chops.<\/p>\n

The senator has positioned himself as a voice of reason within his party, making it clear that he does not side with the radical, fringe voices that have made themselves at home among the Democrats. Republicans have welcomed his common-sense take on politics with open arms, and now the president is reportedly trying to make it official.<\/p>\n

According to Politico\u2019s Jonathan Martin<\/a>, the plot to lure Fetterman away from the left is taking place behind the scenes, but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has made the sell, offering his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian. A handful of Senate Republicans are also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party, multiple high-level GOP officials tell me,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

But just because the senator is making friends across the aisle, including \u201cSen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley,\u201d doesn\u2019t mean he has any interest in joining the GOP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not changing,\u201d he said to Martin during a Friday interview. \u201cI\u2019m a Democrat, and I\u2019m staying one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be a shitty Republican,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But Martin also reports that in private, Fetterman isn\u2019t being as firm in his rejection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn\u2019t embrace or reject the overture, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

As for President Trump, sources appear to confirm that he\u2019s interested in getting Fetterman on his side no matter what. When the senator sat down with Fox News\u2019s Sean Hannity, the host revealed that he had received word from the president.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Your job is to tell him: He\u2019s gonna run as a Republican, he\u2019s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he\u2019s gonna win big,\u2019\u201d Hannity said of Trump\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n

While he hasn\u2019t yet officially responded to Trump\u2019s offer, he noted that the Democrats don\u2019t \u201cmistreat\u201d him, though they are less likely to engage freely with him due to his more center-of-the-road approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t mistreat me, but I think increasingly they\u2019re suspicious or kinda standoffish,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Democrats will drive Fetterman out of his own party, or if Republicans will eventually make him an offer he feels like he can\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, is getting a first-hand look at President Donald Trump\u2019s deal-making chops. The senator has positioned himself as a voice of reason within his party, making it clear that he does not side with the radical, fringe voices that have made themselves at home among the Democrats. Republicans have welcomed his common-sense… Continue reading Trump offers Sen. Fetterman his \u2018total and complete endorsement\u2019 if switches parties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/596068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}