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Ramon Antonio Vargas

John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’

a man gestures while speaking into a microphone, seated with feet up
Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, speaks at the Texas Tribune Festival, in Austin, on Saturday. Photograph: Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

With speculation about whether he may defect from the Democratic party swirling around him, the US senator John Fetterman described himself seemingly unintentionally as a “lifelong Republican” during a fireside chat in Texas over the weekend.

Fetterman made the comment when someone listening to him speak with CBS News political correspondent Major Garrett at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday asked the Pennsylvania senator why he had not become an independent.

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