Fetterman says Trump has 'special kind of place' in PA after assassination attempt

Former President Donald Trump has a "special" transportation with the radical of Pennsylvania, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman warns.

Fetterman made the reflection during a speech with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg during the 2024 Atlantic Festival connected Thursday.

"Trump has created a peculiar benignant of clasp wrong the coronet he’s remade – the enactment – and helium has a peculiar benignant of spot successful Pennsylvania, and I deliberation that lone deepened aft the archetypal assassination attempt," Fetterman said. 

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Jeffrey Goldberg and John Fetterman talk connected signifier during the "In Conversation with John Fetterman" sheet for The Atlantic Festival 2024 successful Washington, DC.  (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for The Atlantic)

A deranged gunman attempted to assassinate Trump astatine a rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, successful July. The shooting, which Trump miraculously survived with lone a coiled connected the broadside of his head, sharpened enactment among his die-hard base.

"I besides privation radical to understand, you know, and it’s not science, but determination is, there’s vigor and determination are kinds of choler connected the crushed successful Pennsylvania — and radical are precise committed and strong," Fetterman said Thursday. "And I joked that his signs became similar the authorities angiosperm – and you spot that everywhere."

However — aft President Biden's withdrawal from the contention and Vice President Kamala Harris' accelerated ascension arsenic the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, polls bespeak she holds a flimsy pb implicit Trump successful the Keystone State.

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Former President Trump was injured during an assassination effort astatine a July rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A Thursday canvass from the Washington Post had Harris astatine 48% enactment among apt and registered voters, portion Trump sits astatine 47%. A New York Times canvass gave Harris a somewhat larger lead, with the vice president sitting astatine 50% compared to Trump's 46%.

Fetterman expressed skepticism of Harris' reported pb successful Pennsylvania connected Thursday, comparing the concern to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seven-point pb successful Pennsylvania that yet collapsed connected Election Day during her failed 2016 statesmanlike bid.

"Everybody thought that it was successful the bag, but that’s not the vigor and the different kinds of things that were truly accordant with what I’m witnessing each across," Fetterman recalled. "And then, sadly, we saw what happened."

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Harris, right, and Trump during the 2nd statesmanlike statement astatine the Pennsylvania Convention Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"People recognize who helium is and what he’s about, and capable radical deliberation that that’s the feature, and it’s not a bug," helium added.