Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said during an interview this week that he will vote for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees because that is “how democracy works.”
Fetterman made the remarks during a Tuesday night Fox News interview with Bret Baier just a couple of hours after he met with former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation.
When asked by Baier if he could vote for Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Fetterman responded: “Well, you know, I met with her, in fact I think I’ve met with virtually all of them, and the ones that I haven’t, they’re on my schedule, RFK and Governor Noem, so I’m happy to meet with all of them.”
“And that’s also part of this, I don’t know why that was controversial,” he said. “I mean, I got a lot of blowback just, you know, even to meet with them, and to me, I see that as just doing my job, and I’m going to have a conversation with anyone that would like to have a conversation with me.”
“And if someone believed everything that’s been written or said about me was true, I mean, you can’t possibly know me, or I think I could know her either, just based on someone read, but I’m going to sit down and have a conversation, and I’m really glad that I’ve done that, and some of these nominees I’m going to vote for already,” he continued.
He said that he plans to vote to confirm Duffy, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for U.N. Ambassador, and Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture.
“So there’s a lot of them, I can say right now here on FOX, I’m going to vote for them,” he said. “But then there’s others that we’re going to go through the process, but I’m open to hear from everyone, and I don’t know why that’s controversial, and I also would like to remind everyone on the Democratic side, that’s the way democracy works.”
“Trump won, and now they’re going to run the table, and so they get to pick those kinds of people, and if you don’t have to agree with all of it, but I want to find a way to work together on a bunch of them,” he concluded.
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