So proud of
@JohnFetterman
who stood up tonight to do something incredibly hard under the best of circumstances, but did it only 5 months into his recovery. What we saw was a brave fighter going to bat for every Pennsylvanian who's been knocked down and tried to get back up.
I can’t emphasize enough what a hero
@Bob_Casey
is. He went above and beyond to help John win, doing anything our team asked of him. Beyond that, he’s just such a genuinely nice person. I love this man, and I’m so proud he & John are PA’s two senators.
Good morning! If you were an “unnamed Democrat” who wet the bed to the press after the debate, I hope you stub your toe on the corner of your bed frame this morning, spill coffee on your shirt and then lock your keys in your car. But mostly, I hope you know you’re a fucking loser
It's really unfortunate that I had to call these two remarkable men on our team today and apologize for what was coming their way. But it was also a clear example of the difference between the kind of man that John is, and the truly soulless immorality of our opponent & his staff
Today in PA Sen news...Oz attacked Fetterman for having two convicted murderers on his staff, calling for him to fire them. They are Lee and Dennis Horton, brothers whose convictions were widely criticized and who ultimately were granted clemency by the Board of Pardons 5-0.
Hi, I'm
@JohnFetterman
's campaign manager – this org and actblue page do NOTHING to support our campaign. If you'd like to see John win and Dems hold the senate, please give to
One funny bit of karma related to this Menendez news… I can think of one particular Republican who might have been a viable challenger had he not just spent two years trying to convince America that he was not actually a resident of New Jersey…
I also want to thank
@malcolmkenyatta
&
@ValArkooshPA
, two of John’s primary opponents who ran spirited campaigns of their own, but when the dust settled they hit the trail & did whatever they could to help John win. They’re both truly kind and gracious people. Proud to know them
The
@AP
tried to find an enthusiastic Oz supporter but could only get a paid staffer from his campaign – yet framed it to their readers as if she was an average voter.
Why is the AP giving no scrutiny to a candidate who has been a professional liar on TV for over a decade?
While many accolades and hot takes keep pouring in, it should be said that the answer to "how we did it" is who we did it for –
@JohnFetterman
. Authenticity is more than just a buzz word. John is at his core, just a good dude trying to serve his community. People knew that.
I'm fortunate to call
@JohnFetterman
a friend, and I'm damn proud of him for having the courage to rebuke the stigma around mental health & do right by himself to seek treatment. He's no doubt helping other people make that same decision & I'm proud as ever to call him my Senator
NEWS: Since last night’s debate
@JohnFetterman
has raised over $2 million from small dollar grassroots supporters.
With your support we will be airing this new TV ad showing Oz’s extreme views on abortion in his own words.
Any of our Dem candidates can beat the Republicans in the fall, and this is not a dig at Conor – but I am *BEGGING* the establishment (Inqy ed board, influential/donor Dems, etc) to start seriously questioning their assumed definition of who/what is "electable"
I'm legitimately moved by the outpouring of support for
@JohnFetterman
after yesterday's news. Sometimes the world actually restores my hope for humanity
Gosh, I wonder why the candidate who had over $100M in brutal attack ads against him won by less than the candidate who had virtually $0 in attacks against him?
One funny thing is how people on this site get these ideas of like, the "good-people campaigns like John Fetterman's" vs. "the bad-people campaigns like Pete Buttigieg's", and if you actually look, the same guy ran both.
FOLKS! I’ve been informed that due to the tireless efforts of
@RepBrendanBoyle
our beloved clickety-clack sign will be returning to 30th St upon completion of the remodel. Digital billboards will also remain to better support our ADA community. That’s constituent services, folks!
I’m still bitter over the boneheaded decision someone at
@Amtrak
made a few years ago to replace our old fashioned clickety-clack board at 30th Street Station with this piece of shit
McElwee told
@bterris
that he'd placed bets against JOHN FETTERMAN, whom he was working for, saying "I think he's fucked." McElwee showed Ben a spreadsheet of bets he'd made on the midterm --most AGAINST Dems. “I think I’m going to make a lot of money on election night,” he said
New: Fetterman's campaign has hired a new manager for the general election. Brendan McPhillips ran Fetterman's 2016 campaign and was also PA state director for Biden.
Don’t know how Yass floating Trump billions of dollars right after Trump acted on Yass’s behalf to rally Republicans in support of TikTok isn’t setting off 1,000 legal alarm bells
Based on active users and revenue, Truth Social is not worth $3billion. This is a political donation from Yass to Trump. Trump still has one hurdle to cash the money, a lock out clause where he has to hold his shareholding for 6 months!
Had to miss today because covid finally got our household. But this is still cool to watch from afar. Congratulations to
@JohnFetterman
& everyone on the entire
#TeamFetterman
crew!
I was the State Director for Joe Biden here in PA, so I am intimately familiar with the 80,555 margin, nor can I be written off as some fringe lefty. PA & Nat'l Dems must be much more creative, bold, and dare I say inspired about how & why we campaign, and what we're fighting for
Right out of the gate
@JohnFetterman
addresses Oz’s lies and vile attacks on his stroke recovery, says he was knocked down & got back up – and is in this race to fight for PA’s forgotten communities who’ve also been knocked down and need a fighter
#PASenateDebate
Can confirm
@BarackObama
was playing air guitar to "Back in Black" when it was playing during
@JohnFetterman
's walk off. That is some November energy, baby! LFG!!!
Thanks for all the likes/retweets. Again, please contribute to
#Fetterman
's direct actblue page if you can. We are extremely grateful for your support 🙏
Dr. Oz just doubled down on his support for the overturn of Roe v. Wade. He is an extremist who wants to let people like
@dougmastriano
decide what women should do with their bodies
#PASenateDebate
Ben Shapiro on Medicare and Social Security: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."
I don't know why every company I've ever purchased a product from in the last few years thinks I want them to email me every day now. Who do they think they are, a Democrat running for Congress in a district I've never lived near?
Let us be fearless amid the messy situations all around us, because that is where the Lord is, in our midst; God continues to perform his miracle of bringing forth good fruit (Jn 15:5). Christian joy is born precisely of this certainty.
And Casey’s team, led by
@BuffaloKEG
are always amazing to work with. Kristen would pick up the phone at any time to answer any question and was always willing to be a resource for us. Y’all are some real ones 👊
I haven’t been able to just chill with my fam on a Saturday and watch our baby rock out to my records in way too long… to do that today while reading news about John’s lead growing to roughly 5pts is a damn fine Saturday morning. I’ll take it
I do this work for this little nugget. Baby McSluss wants you to go vote for
@JohnFetterman
and call 3 of your friends to do the same. Apparently she has chocolate for you when you do
Important reminder that thanks to many of you, your newest U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is *not* a Giants fan.
Cheers, and Go Birds! 🦅 🇺🇸 🔔
They aren't "offering" $35/mo caps - they are required to do it because
@JoeBiden
is getting shit done to make people's lives better and made it the law. Meanwhile, Trump and the Republican primary field are competing with each other in the extremism olympics
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs.
Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
We're at a time in this country when one of the two major parties is a well organized & highly effective modern Fascist movement, and the other is a hodgepodge of everyone to the left of Liz Cheney, so it's unsurprising that we're often distracted chasing our own tails...
As someone who worked to win the presidency in 2020 and save the senate in 2022, I can say the level of hubris and complete lack of self awareness displayed by
@BobBradyPHL
and
@PHLDems
in this statement is embarrassing to the entire city and actively harmful to growing the party
Proud to team up with this talented group to deliver PA for the President once again, and secure our Democracy for many years to come. Nothing less is at stake. LFG!
Biden's campaign has hired three staffers to lead the Pennsylvania reelection campaign:
@NikkiliaLu
will be state campaign manager and
@BrendanMcP
and
@KellanWhite
will be senior advisors.
I’m still bitter over the boneheaded decision someone at
@Amtrak
made a few years ago to replace our old fashioned clickety-clack board at 30th Street Station with this piece of shit
Going out like the bigoted asshole we all knew him to be. What a difference it will be to have a genuinely good person taking over this seat. Thank you, Pennsylvania
Back at King George’s mansion in north Jersey, Dr. Oz is sipping a glass of Pinot Grigio, watching his two favorite football teams play and thinking back on all those times he tried to pretend to be an Eagles fan, muttering to himself “fuck them birds.” Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Instead of learning to use power to deliver for the people whose lives depend on us delivering bold change to a broken system - we miss a lot of that work, grasping at what feels familiar, safe and comfortable: the lure of bipartisanship, stale talking points, normie policy
A reporter recently asked me why the GOP has to recruit out of state carpetbaggers like Dave McCormick to run for senate here, and my answer was basically “well, have you met Pennsylvania Republicans?”
Candidate quality matters so much. Then you have to figure out how to build and run a campaign operation that embodies the spirit of that candidate, not make the candidate fit into a standard playbook. Sounds simple, but that often doesn't happen.
With how fed up with MAGA nonsense voters in Bucks County have become, PA-1 will be a race to watch as Dems have a real patriot & public servant making her second run at Fitzpatrick who has completely sold his soul to the far-right whack jobs who have eroded the Republican Party
SPOTTED: The Dean Phillips for President bus is already on the road. Photo from my friend Amy Waller, who sells German wine, on the road in Ohio. Bus says “Make America Affordable Again” and uses his slogan “Everyone’s Invited!” Website isn’t live, but just registered 10/12.
A few minutes ago, Steve Keeley of Fox29 tweeted a statement that two Helen Gym campaign workers were involved in a shooting. This is not true. All of our staff are safe and accounted for – and neither Keeley, nor anyone at Fox reached out to our campaign to fact check this
My point is largely that if I cut my hair, squeezed into a pre-covid suit, & waltzed into a donor meeting or ed-board interview armed w/ nothing but my Irish charm, I'd be taken more seriously tomorrow than the shorts-wearing pro-cannabis LG & young Black working class State Rep
“Fetterman would bring to Washington a ground-level appreciation for the challenges facing Pennsylvanians, and he understands the importance of advocating for the state… Fetterman has an abundance of the kind of values and priorities that are needed to move the nation forward”
This group of Physicians went above and beyond for our campaign. They held many press conferences about why Oz wasn’t a real doctor and was actually dangerous to Pennsylvanians, worked their social accounts hard AND took their message straight to voters by knocking a ton of doors
I'm sure Bucks County families will be heartened to learn that Brian Fitzpatrick voted for someone for speaker who covered up sexual abuse. Real family values stuff there
@BlueDotResists
@JohnFetterman
No, ActBlue is fine – they're who every Dem uses, and the link I included is an ActBlue link. This organization "The Democratic Coalition" set up an act blue page for themselves that was linked to their "fetterman ad" and none of the money they are raising goes to help us win.
It is deeply embarrassing that
@AmRevMuseum
hosted an event for these literal Nazis. They owe the city and the country an apology. And they clearly need a leadership change
At Moms for Liberty's Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings.
"...It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes."
Bucks County voters have ✨once again✨ soundly rejected Donald Trump’s extreme MAGA agenda in today’s special election by mopping the floor with the GOP’s radical nominee so the AP could call this thing while I was just putting my kiddo to bed.
Senator Bob Casey has introduced a bill to automatically enroll all children in Medicaid from birth through age 18.
The Medicaid for Every Child Act would mean that no child would ever have to go without health care in this country.
🚨 NEW POLL 🚨
@HelenGymPHL
has climbed into a tie for first. Voters are responding to Helen's positive vision to rebuild our schools and invest in our neighborhoods that have been forgotten by the establishment.
But I've said it before, polls don't mean shit - knock more doors!
Oz just spewing NRA talking points while gun violence plagues the country. He is wholly unfit to represent anyone in the United States Senate, let alone the people of a commonwealth he does not live in.
#PASenateDebate
Thanks to
@RebeccaKKatz
for giving me a call to put the band back together for one more tour. She did a hell of a job steering through the primary and juggling an unprecedented situation when John had his stroke. She & her entire NDS team were all-in to do whatever it took to win
Count me among the many people impressed by the quick turnaround on getting 95 back up in 3 weeks… We’ve seen what government can do when it prioritizes something – now bring that same level of urgency to repairing our toxic, crumbling school buildings. Do it this summer.
Temporary lanes spanning the damaged section of I-95 in Northeast Philly will open today at noon, well ahead of original estimates.
Follow us here for live updates ⤵️
This is such a big deal and I am legit stoked and quite frankly, proud as hell, to have played a small part in electing a president that's walking a union picket line today. LFG ✊