Sen. John Fetterman doubled down in his help of President Biden after his ABC interview Friday, condemning efforts by his fellow Democrats to shove the octogenarian commander-in-chief out of the race.
“Democrats have to get a backbone or develop a set — one or the opposite. Joe Biden is our man,” Fetterman stated in a terse posting on X.
The terse remark reiterated the Pennsylvania ragamuffin as a ride-or-die for Biden, at the same time as a rising variety of elected Democrats moved to desert him after his disastrous debate in opposition to Donald Trump final week.
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“I’m unwilling to discard an amazing president, an honest man and a loving father after 50 years in public service, over a 90 minute debate,” Fetterman added earlier than Biden’s do-or-die with anchor George Stephanopoulos. “Responding with dysfunction, panic and disloyalty just isn’t assembly this second.”
When the New York Occasions known as on Biden to drop out of the race, Fetterman responded by posting
“f–ok that,” to his almost 1 million followers.
Fetterman himself had one thing of an identical expertise to Biden throughout his Senate race in 2022 when questions on his electability and health had been raised after he stumbled by his personal disastrous debate.
On the time Fetterman was nonetheless in restoration from a stroke.
He however went on to win his race by greater than 200,000 votes.
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