John Fetterman didn’t mince words with his message to Democrats.
He gave them the message they needed to hear after a stunning election defeat.
And John Fetterman gave Democrats a brutal reality check over this terrible failure.
Democrats cost themselves big time over immigration failures
President-elect Donald Trump rode a wave of discontent over illegal immigration to crush Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.
Voters consistently rated immigration as one of the biggest issues in the election after President Joe Biden created a historic border crisis.
The angst over illegal immigration helped cost Democrats control over both houses of Congress.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was one of the few members of the party willing to speak the hard truth about the problems Democrats were facing this election.
He admitted that Democrats’ inability to handle border security and immigration cost the party big time with voters on Election Day during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
“Well, one area where we kind of lost ourselves was the border,” Fetterman said. “And I’ve been on this network, you know, months, months ago saying, ‘Hey, you know, it can’t be controversial for our party to have pro-immigration, but we need a secure border.’”
Trying to deny the massive scale of the illegal immigration problem was a disaster for Democrats according to Fetterman.
“When we ask or demand people to not believe what they see, and see those kind of numbers, that that’s not a problem,” Fetterman admitted. “It’s like, well, then you lose about that 100%.”
Fetterman was blown away by the sheer size of the problem Democrats created
More than 11 million illegal aliens entered the country during the Biden-Harris administration.
The sheer size of the numbers became almost incomprehensible.
Fetterman broke down what was happening to America every month because of illegal immigration under President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
“I’ve tried to describe – you have up to 300,000 people – encounters – per month,” Fetterman explained. “And I put that in perspective with Pennsylvania. I’m like, that’s the size of Pittsburgh showing up in one month.”
“It’s like, what’s going to happen for those folks?” Fetterman asked. “If we want them [to have] the American Dream for those people, how can we possibly deliver that? Where do they go? And we can’t pretend that that’s not a significant issue. And we got to address that.”
Fetterman claimed that he wasn’t going to be in a rush to judgment about the incoming Trump administration.
“I’m not going to pre-hate. I’m not going to pre-hate a lot of these things, and I’m not going to pre-hate this,” Fetterman said. “I’m going to have an open conversation for anyone, that I’m open to having part of that conversation.”
He was even open to voting to confirm his former Republican opponent in the 2022 Senate election in Pennsylvania, Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom Trump nominated to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Fetterman admitted the race got “kinda ugly” but said he “doesn’t have any kind of bitterness.”
Democrats are facing some long months of soul-searching after the party gave them a resounding rejection on Election Day.
