Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has lost his unique leverage in Washington now that his party has pulled off a blue wave in the midterm elections.
The Democratic Party was handed control of the House and the Senate on Tuesday, dramatically reshaping Congress for the country.
In Pennsylvania, Fetterman has wielded the power of being the deciding vote in what was a narrowly divided Senate, as a Democrat willing to break with his party. But Democratic Senate gains across the country on Tuesday have pushed their seats from a minority of 47 to a majority of at least 54, after flipping at least seven seats, as of early Wednesday morning.
This means Fetterman, who has long faced criticism from wings of his party for obstructing the Democratic agenda by voting with Republicans, will now have less power to force his party to listen to the views he represents.
The people who decide congressional leadership, are the sitting members of Congress.
2 years ago when the vote was held Jamie Harrison was still DNC chair, and not voting how he wanted would have gotten your state party cut off from “the victory fund”.
That fund is gone now, has been for a while.
The current DNC chair named in February 25 dumped all that money back to the states it was stolen from.
It’s not just that we have to trust him not to use “the stick”, he fucking burnt the stick to ash already.
Representatives can vote for the leadership they want, but we need to reach out to them and tell them what we want them to do.