Fetterman Just Promised Not to Campaign Against His Republican Colleague — and His Party Is Furious About It

Sen. John Fetterman, perhaps the last of the ‘moderate’ Democrats in Congress, just made the majority of his party colleagues angry. Again.

Fetterman told an interviewer this week that he will never campaign against his friend and fellow Pennsylvania senator Dave McCormick: “I would absolutely never move against my friend.” He called McCormick “a great guy” and declined to say whether he’d go as far as endorsing him — but the promise not to work against him is remarkable on its own.

In 2026, saying you won’t help defeat a Republican colleague is apparently the most radical thing a Democratic senator can do. Let that sink in.

The Fetterman-McCormick relationship is one of the few genuinely wholesome stories in a Washington that has forgotten how to produce them. The two senators have organized a joint fundraising committee — Common Ground PA — that accepts donations from Pennsylvanians who want to support both of them simultaneously. When Governor Josh Shapiro refused to set up Pennsylvania’s booth at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall — in what appeared to be a political snub tied to his ongoing tensions with Trump — Fetterman and McCormick joined forces and made sure Pennsylvania showed up.