Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is not pleased with the Green Party’s influence on the Pennsylvania Senate race.
He made his feelings publicly known as he awaits more results in the race, even though the Associated Press has already called it for Republican Dave McCormick over Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA).
“Pennsylvania is going to count every last vote,” Fetterman said in a post on X. “That’s not controversial—that’s the law. Also, Green dipsh***’ votes helping elect the GOP.”
Green Party candidate Leila Hazou has about 64,000 votes as of Thursday evening, which is almost double the roughly 33,000 vote margin between Casey and McCormick. Green Party candidates in 2024 have generally supported a ceasefire in Gaza and taken left-leaning stances on foreign policy.
Hazou herself is a Palestinian woman who confronted Casey earlier this year for not supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. “There are a lot of people who are staunch Democrats who just can’t vote for genocide,” she said at the time.
Democrats have often had a contentious relationship with the Green Party as they believe they take away votes from them. Democrats spent money on ads attacking Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in an effort to sway voters away from her in October.
The Associated Press explained its reasoning for why it called the race for McCormick, saying there’s likely not enough votes for Casey to come back. Republicans will flip the Pennsylvania Senate seat.
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“McCormick was leading by more than 30,000 votes when AP called the race at 4:09 p.m., and though there were an estimated 91,000 votes still outstanding, there were not enough in areas supporting Casey for him to make up the difference,” the outlet said.
As for the other third-party candidates, Libertarian candidate John Thomas has about 87,000 votes while the Constitution Party, a right-wing group, candidate Marty Selker has about 23,000.