Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) rebuked the Democratic nominee in the Maine Senate race on Friday, saying scandal-plagued Graham Platner is “not even a Democrat.”

“We’re the party of pearl clutching, and now we’ve embraced him because we don’t have a choice,” Fetterman told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham in an interview Friday.

“Like if you can’t really defend him, you could at least say, well, he has a ‘D’ after his name, but he’s not even a Democrat,” he continued. “He actually described himself as a communist.”

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      It is a lot of revisionist history. If you actually tuned in early on and listened in any depth, it was real.

      I can’t find it now, but there was one earlier interview in particular on CNN/MSNBC, maybe when he was running for lieutenant governor? It was in front of a Sheetz or a Wawa and he genuinely felt like he could be a viable presidential candidate one day. Clear, confident and progressive positions expressed very matter of fact.

      The person you see today is not the same person. Again, john fetterman died.

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        That is bullshit, I knew Fetterman was a piece of shit from the start. Due to his unqualified support for Israel and fracking.

        I saw it, the intercept saw and said it at some point before the election as well.

        If you didn’t see it, it just means you failed.

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          Before “the election”… what are you taking about, guy? Fetterman has held several local and state offices before the stroke. Those were years of saying shit and delivering tangible outcomes, that’s how he advanced to national prominence, not because he wore shorts.

          But again, that fetterman was real, and died from a stroke.