Pennsylvania may be the most important state in the 2024 election.
But now some bad news left Kamala Harris with a knot in the pit of her stomach.
And John Fetterman revealed the scary reason Kamala Harris could lose Pennsylvania.
John Fetterman scared about the state of the race in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman didn’t have time to sugar coat it in an interview with New York Times podcaster LuLu Garcia-Navarro.
Fetterman told Garcia-Navarro that it was long past time for his party to give up trying to figure out why tens of millions of Americans support Donald Trump and come to grips with the breadth and intensity of the movement behind Trump.
“There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,” Fetterman stated. “And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing.”
Trump built a movement that coalesced around their anger over leftist elites and the institutions they control serving their own interests by opening the borders, devaluing the dollar through inflation and starting endless wars abroad.
Donald Trump is the first major politician who spoke to these concerns and earned the loyalty of tens of millions of Americans.
Fetterman described to Garcia-Navarro just how devoted Trump’s fan base is by using an example of what he saw when he held a rally in a rural county.
“I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real,” Fetterman continued.
Fetterman concerned about Elon Musk endorsement
But even more than Trump’s base, what worried Fetterman was the endorsement of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk.
“And now [Elon] Musk is joining him,” Fetterman told Garcia-Navarro. “I mean, to a lot of people, that’s Tony Stark. That’s the world’s richest guy. And he’s obviously, and undeniably, a brilliant guy, and he’s saying, Hey, that’s my guy for president. That’s going to really matter.”
Fetterman compared Musk to Tony Stark, Iron Man in the Avengers movies played by Robert Downey Jr. in that he’s a popular, irreverent billionaire who owns the ability to connect with everyday folks.
Endorsements come and go in politics.
They rarely deliver any votes beyond the one from the endorser.
But Fetterman told Garcia-Navarro that Musk’s endorsement could be different.
“Endorsements, they’re really not meaningful often, but this one is, I think,” Fetterman warned. “That has me concerned.”
That’s because Musk – who owns X – has a big platform and the ability to reach unconventional voters who may not otherwise show up on Election Day.
The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Trump up by 0.6 percent over Kamala Harris.
If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he may owe it to the intensity of his base and Elon Musk’s endorsement.
