Big bad John
Rumors abound about Fetterman possibly leaving the Democrat party, but we don’t want him.
Silvio Canto, Jr. | May 5, 2026
Whatever happened to Jimmy Dean? I remember him making some sausage commercials and singing that big hit song: “Big bad John.” The song closes with a classic line: “At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man – Big John.”
Maybe at the bottom of the DNC headquarters is a big bad John trying to save the party. It must feel that way for Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. In four years, he went from the savior who gave the Democrats a 51–49 majority in the U.S. Senate to the horrible man who wants to defend President Trump.
We understand that some GOP members want to persuade Senator Fetterman to switch parties. This is from Jonathan Martin:
The political environment is curdling for Republicans, and the quiet campaign to lure Fetterman across the aisle is underway.
Trump has made the sell, offering his patented total and complete endorsement plus a financial windfall to the Pennsylvanian. A handful of Senate Republicans are also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party, multiple high-level GOP officials tell me.
If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley.
But the first-term Democrat — who’s infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president’s ballroom — isn’t yet persuaded.
‘I’m not changing,’ Fetterman told me in an interview Friday when I asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent. ‘I’m a Democrat, and I’m staying one.’
Yet, at least in private, he’s not totally rejecting dropping his ‘D.’
So he won’t be persuaded into changing. It makes no sense for him to switch. He is a lot more effective doing what he is doing, such as questioning his party’s madness over President Trump.
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