Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said during an interview over the weekend that Democrats hurt themselves in the recent election because they were “lost” on major issues.
Fetterman made the remarks during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” while reflecting on his party’s losses this month.
“Well, one area where we kind of lost ourselves was the border,” he 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.'”
He said that the party made a major mistake by asking and demanding that people not believe what they were seeing about the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S. every month.
“I’ve tried to describe – you have up to 300,000 encounters per month,” he said. “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? 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.”
He also suggested that Democrats lost their way when it came to supporting Israel.
“I said I was going to follow Israel,” he said. “And since they refused to have that cease-fire, they have eliminated and broken Hamas, and Hezbollah, Hezbollah was supposed to be like the ultimate bada**es in the Middle East, and now they were a bunch of Keystone Cops, and Iran has just been exposed, as you know, they really can’t fight about anything. So that’s been a significant development here.”
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