‘Online movement’ against John Fetterman is only present in the ‘far-left’: Salena Zito

Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito downplayed the “hyperbole” uprising that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is facing within the Democratic Party.

Fetterman became a senator in 2022 after beating former Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb in the primary election and Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz in the general election. Zito said there are a lot of posts on X “pushing” Lamb, even after Fetterman beat Lamb by 30%, winning all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

“And the argument that Lamb is making, that Fetterman is not a true Democrat, Fetterman votes 93% of the time with Democrats, whereas Lamb voted 68% of the time with Democrats,” Zito said on the Hugh Hewitt Show. “That’s another — that’s almost a 30-point difference.”

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“And so I think there is a lot of posturing, but the Democrats that I talk to, even they know that there’s sort of this online movement against Fetterman, it’s