Chris Cuomo on Why John Fetterman GETS IT

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Chris Cuomo

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo unpacks the backlash against Senator John Fetterman and argues that Democrats are undermining their own by prioritizing ideological purity over pragmatic progress. Responding to a harsh New York Magazine article, featuring quotes from Fetterman’s former chief of staff and anonymous party sources, Cuomo criticizes the renewed questioning of Fetterman’s mental fitness and says the attacks are less about policy failure than about his willingness to support Israel and work with Republicans on immigration and trade. He defends Fetterman’s “progressive pragmatism” as a path Democrats should embrace and warns that the party risks losing the majority by turning on those trying to deliver real results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got a great piece of advice for Democrats.
0:09.5	I'm Chris Cuomo.
0:11.0	Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project.
0:13.4	I have a great strategic idea for you guys, okay?
0:20.5	Stop eating your own. Stop with the purity tests. I'm talking
0:26.2	about Senator John Federman, okay? Let's just take one step backwards, okay? The Democrats
0:35.3	defended this guy through all kinds of stuff that Federman made relevant that
0:41.1	should have never been like his hoodie, his manner, his illness, not taking a leave, his debate
0:49.6	performance, all of these things that politically were very damaging,
0:57.7	even though I had mixed feelings about some of them that I'll tell you about in a second.
0:59.4	And the Democrats were there.
1:02.7	Then he does two things.
1:07.4	He first of all muscles up and knuckles up when it comes to Israel and opposing a terror organization in Hamas without compromise. And then he starts
1:14.6	to talk about working with Republicans, whether it's on immigration or on the signature issue
1:21.9	of my generation, which is what? The balancing of benefits and burdens in commerce. And I'll explain more what that
1:31.4	means to me and what it means to Federman and frankly to President Trump. So he goes hard line on Israel.
1:38.4	He says you should be working with Trump on immigration. He's right about what happened at the border.
1:42.8	He's right about trade. He's right about who we should be thinking about in terms of who benefits in our economy.
1:48.8	And all of a sudden, the left goes bad on him. Did you see that piece in New York Magazine?
1:53.9	What a shit hit piece that was. Fetterman is right to be befuddled by what's motivating it, but I don't know why.
2:03.3	I mean, he's right to feel that way, to feel betrayed, but I see it with clear eyes.
2:07.8	His own people are coming after him. Small and large, micro and macro, micro, it's his former
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