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MAGA-world making bank off 'Trump’s favorite Democrat'

alternet.org · 3h · first reportShare

Sen. John Fetterman's slow lurch to the right has made him enemies among his own party and earned him the nickname " Trump's favorite Democrat ," and now, per a report from The Atlantic , he is also helping figures in MAGA-world make bank. In a piece published Wednesday, the outlet reported that Fetterman, the first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania, found himself working with a MAGA-friendly, "GOP-aligned" fundraising entity, Blitz Digital, after his previous Democratic firm, MissionWired, parted ways with him over the summer. The report further cited internal communications about a fundraising pitch signed by Fetterman — in which he pledged to "always going to reject Socialism and the anti-American way of life" and accused his own party of being hijacked by socialists — "doing crazy numbers" for the company. "Shortly [after leaving MissionWired], he forged a joint fundraising committee with Pennsylvania’s other senator, Dave McCormick, a Republican," The Atlantic explained. "In July, F