Shapiro won’t commit to supporting Fetterman’s re-election bid
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the New York Times’ Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. He denied the report about his relationship with.
During the show, host Martha Raddatz asked the Democratic governor to comment on a New York Times article claiming that he and Fetterman were “not talking.” Shapiro insisted that the report was “not true” and was created by journalists to “create a lot of drama.”
Raddatz then asked if he would support Fetterman’s re-election.
“Well, he has to decide whether he wants to run for re-election,” Shapiro said. “This is not for another cycle.”
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that he is waiting for Sen. John Fetterman’s decision before offering any endorsements. (Rachel Wisniewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I don’t know if he’s running for re-election. I think he needs to decide whether he’s running for office or not, and then we’ll make a decision from there,” he added.
Raddatz asked Shapiro to clarify that he meant he had not yet decided to support Fetterman.
“He needs to decide whether he’s going to run for re-election, and we’ll make a decision after that,” Shapiro echoed.
Although Shapiro did not answer whether he and Fetterman still talk, Shapiro described his relationship with Fetterman as “constructive.”
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“We have a constructive relationship to ensure that the people of Pennsylvania are served. He and I are clearly different people, he casts some votes and takes some positions that I strongly disagree with, but at the end of the day, my job is to serve the people of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said. said Shapiro.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., refused to endorse Gov. Josh Shapiro for re-election earlier this month. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Fetterman’s office for comment.
Fetterman similarly refused to endorse Shapiro’s re-election in 2028 when asked repeatedly. By Dasha Burns of Politico earlier this month.
“I appreciate your service. We both support our services,” Fetterman said.
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Fetterman’s “Unfettered” memoir revealed an incident in which he called Shapiro a “skk” over a parole board dispute in 2020 and threatened to run for governor in Shapiro’s primary in 2022.
“I told him there were two paths, one where he ran for governor and I ran for the Senate (which is what I preferred),” Fetterman wrote.
John Fetterman opened up about the tension between him and Josh Shapiro since the parole board dispute in 2020. (Bill Streicher/Reuters; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Fetterman wrote that his relationship with Shapiro never recovered after the disagreement.
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“I sincerely wish him the best,” Fetterman wrote. “He is a credit to the state, and one day he may be a credit to the country. I remember fondly the days when we were nobodies trying to climb the ladder. Even though we don’t talk anymore.”
