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

This is what actual bipartisanship looks like. Not the performative kind where senators occasionally have lunch together before voting along party lines on everything. The kind where two men from opposite parties genuinely respect each other, trust each other, and act like adults who share a state rather than enemies who share a building.

Fetterman is up for reelection himself in 2028, which makes McCormick’s future posture equally interesting — will he stay neutral when the shoe is on the other foot?

The honest political reality is that Fetterman is doing what his constituents sent him to do and what the increasingly radicalized Democratic caucus refuses to acknowledge: representing a purple state as a senator, not as a party warrior. Pennsylvania is not California. Pennsylvania is not Massachusetts. It is a state that swings, that has legitimate conservative and moderate communities, and that deserves a senator who acts like he knows it.

The DSA wing of the Democratic Party — the same people who just won primaries in Michigan, New York, and Colorado — views Fetterman’s friendship with McCormick as a betrayal. They called him a communist last month. He called them communists back. He’s right. They’re not going to forgive him for refusing to treat his Republican colleague as an enemy.