Political commentator and The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur called Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman a "fraud" and suggested he has switched his political affiliation.
In a Saturday X post, Uygur proposed running a "poll" on the Pennsylvania senator's support in the state after Fetterman has repeatedly expressed his ardent support for Israel amid the Jewish state's military conflict with Islamic militant group Hamas.
"I bet his numbers went down significantly after he became the biggest cheerleader for the establishment, biggest supporter of killing innocent Palestinians in Gaza, and a huge backer of Biden," Uygur wrote in his post.
The Young Turks host said, "That's not who [Pennsylvanians] voted for."
Uygur's Saturday post springboarded off his Friday post similarly criticizing Fetterman's stance on former Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation last week.
"Now John Fetterman is telling everyone how he's not a progressive," Uygur said in reference to Fetterman's December remarks. "He rejects us and is now calling Harvard 'pinko.' What the f---?"
Uygur said progressive voters "lose hope" because of "frauds" like the Pennsylvania senator.
"You work hard to get a progressive elected and they turn into Republicans instantly," he concluded.
The Young Turks host also called out Fetterman as a "fraud" in a late-December post.
"Fetterman has gone from the last great populist hope on the Democratic side to worse than useless," he wrote. "He's now enthusiastically taken on the role of mouthpiece for the establishment who attacks anyone challenging Biden or the powerful."
Uygur referred to Fetterman as a "counterproductive poser."
Fetterman has notably contrasted his Democratic colleagues in Congress in recent months. In December, the Pennsylvania senator referred to his politics as a "Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things." “I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman told NBC News. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” “Until somebody can say there’s an explanation on what we can do when 270,000 people are being encountered on the border, not including the ones, of course, that we don’t know about,” he said. “To put that in reference, that is essentially the size of Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania.”
The Pennsylvania senator suggested his Democratic colleagues should have a "reasonable conversation" with Republicans about illegal immigration.
