Fetterman: Sanders, others need to ‘apologize’ for backing Platner

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said late Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other prominent progressive voices in the Democratic Party should “apologize” for championing Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy in Maine, calling Platner a “predator”  

“I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone he helped,” Fetterman told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview.

“So I don’t know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people,” Fetterman added.

Fetterman suggested that Sanders should take a break from endorsing candidates, given how things are turning out in Maine.

“Maybe he should consider sit a few out and stop pushing these kinds of communists and people,” he said, adding that Platner has “been credibly accused of rape.”

Fetterman argued that Platner was “a dead man walking, politically,” after The New........

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