Fetterman calls Trump's support in Pennsylvania 'astonishing': 'You can see the intensity' | 26 Oct 2024 | Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state and called former President Trump's support there "astonishing" while predicting that Elon Musk's endorsement is "going to really matter." "There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists," Fetterman told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday morning when asked about enthusiasm for Trump in Pennsylvania. "And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It's astonishing." Fetterman continued, "I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it's like, Where does this all come from? It's the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It's just - it's real."