John Fetterman: The Rogue Democrat Who Broke Party Ranks

John Fetterman, thank you for joining us here on the all in podcast for this all in interview. Very excited to have you here today. I know you're in the middle of voting today. Sounds like the Save America Act, might be starting its debate on the floor. Is that correct? I don't know. Like, what what I've heard recently that they don't have the votes, but we will find, but I I don't have any special insight. I mean, it's it's gonna be very close. I don't think it if they do hit it, I don't see it more beyond 51, but I'm not really sure. It's a shame that they didn't make it more about just ID to vote. They turned it into other things, that they turned it into kind of a Christmas tree and they're hanging all these things on it. But now that's that's where we are, but we'll know. And having someone follow that too, I just he's gonna let me know, in fact, because I'm really interested to see how it goes because if they do, then that's gonna turn into a really a spectacle about what a a talking filibuster is. Yeah. Well, let's see what happens. I mean, it's a pretty dramatic, week ahead. Let me just start. I I wanna zoom out a little bit and talk about how you make policy decisions, and I wanna just start with party. You ran as a progressive in 2016, lost. You beat doctor Oz at '22, and now you have a 72% approval rating from Pennsylvania Republicans and only 22% from Democrats. Are you a Republican or are you a Democrat, Senator? And kinda what's the way that you think about your party affiliation? Well, I actually I I think the the more realistic the the realistic numbers was like earlier in the morning console and that hit me at basically fiftyfifty with Dems. And I was in the sixties with Republicans without a doubt, without a doubt that I am more popular with Republicans. And I'm mystified by that. I mean, I'm honored to have support from any Pennsylvanian, but what I will say that, you know, I'm just going to follow what I think is the moral clarity. And now in my very first race back in 2015 over a decade ago, what used to be a progressive is definitely not what a progressive started to turn into and what it be became. And even in my race in 2122, I was announcing I am no longer I'm just a Democrat. I'm not a progressive. And now there's been that evolution away from like, those core principles that really weren't weren't controversial. And and now I've isolated myself by following and standing and proud to be unapologetically supporting Israel. And now if you've seen that that poll came out yesterday that the standing in the Democratic party continues to deteriorate, I've put that out on my social media and I …