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May 5, 2026 14 mins

Buck Sexton discusses media speculation around Senator John Fetterman and whether he could shift his political alignment, breaking down what’s driving the headlines and what his actual voting record suggests. Buck also explores broader implications for party control in the Senate and what even small ideological shifts could mean in closely contested elections.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is Senator John Fetterman really considering a switch to the GOP? Look,
the fake news spits out a lot of nonsense, and
this is one of those times where you say, hold
on a second. They're saying something that I kind of
want to hear, But they're buzzing a lot about this.
One GOP leader eyes potential party switch from Democratic senator

(00:24):
as twenty twenty eight race looms. That was one headline.
Pennsylvania Republicans are watching and waiting. Another one Fetterman faces
knives out from his own party. These are all headlines. Heck,
even the Pennsylvania GOP chairman said they're still trying to
wrestle with what happens if Federman switches parties and becomes
a Republican? Is this real? Who this actually happened? Well, look,

(00:47):
from where I sit, I think that anything that goes
in this direction can create the sweetest kind of chaos,
something that really makes things more complicated form especially in
an election where they're going to want to be playing
the Oh we're moderates, Oh, we do everything we can
to help the middle class and bring down costs. No,

(01:09):
they don't. They're a party of socialist whack jobs. Who
only pretend to be moderate when it's time to fool
people into giving them just enough votes, the votes that
they have power and can win. So look, Fetterman isn't
running around with a Maga hat on and quoting the
Federalist papers that much. We know. He still is calling
himself a Democrat, and his voting record, a lot of

(01:31):
people point this out proves it ninety one percent party
line with the Democrats overall. But you know about the
other nine percent or so, that's that's the part that
drives their the left, radical left of his party completely
in saying, I mean, let's take a look at this
record for second. Here, Fetterman has broken with Schumer and

(01:54):
Jeffries again and again on things that actually can matter
to everyday Americans. He's voted with Republicans multiple times. For example,
the reopen government Chuck Schumer was playing shut down Chicken.
Schumer was so upset about this. Fetterman has been, as
we know, rock solid on Israel while the squad is

(02:16):
doing their campus cosplay Oh we love hamas nonsense. He's
called out the border catastrophe in very plain language that
sounds a lot more Republican than it does certainly AOC,
like he's even defended fracking in Pennsylvania because he represents

(02:37):
working people instead of coastal trust fund activist types. And
he's been willing to work with Trump on cabinet picks
and even take some meetings in order to get those
Trump cabinet picks through that a lot of Democrats get
all upset about and clutch their pearls and they cry, oh,
Fetterman is selling a soup. So this isn't just some

(02:57):
spin from the media. It's like the media is coming
up with this and they are the ones manufacturing this
out of whole cloth. This is a guy who has
looked at the Democrat Party's overall brand being open borders,
defund the police, transgender many all this stuff, all the

(03:18):
anti Semitism, by the way, because the Democrat Party has
a place now for anti Semites, like they've carved out
a space. You have to be non white and then
you're allowed to be a Democrat anti Semite. So if
you're you know, Rashida talib or ilhan Omar or go
down the list, you're allowed to be an anti Semite.

(03:39):
And they just they are okay with this. But you
look at some other and so breaks with them on that.
You look at some things like issues where Fetterman doesn't
align with them, he doesn't align with them, as we
said on the border. And he's gotten so so much

(04:01):
heat from his own side that Pennsylvania House Democrats aren't
even gonna endorse him for reelection. So why does this
matter for the upcoming twenty twenty six midterms and control
the Senate? Because right now Republicans hold a fifty three
to forty seven edge, right so it's we have an edge,
but not a huge one. Republicans are the majority, We

(04:22):
are passing the agenda, and every single Democrat defection, even
if it's partial defection, every fracture, every bit of public
strife is helpful to our side. It's harder for them
to convince swing state voters that there's some well oiled
machine ready to govern and take over when people from

(04:45):
their own party are ready to bounce. So let's just
imagine for a second if Federman actually pulls the trigger.
I'm not talking about a full switch right now. Let's
just say he starts caucusing with Republicans, runs as an independent,
and maybe in twenty eight with Republican backing Suddenly that
Pennsylvania seat, which Democrats thought they had locked down, becomes

(05:10):
part of a firewall of GOP Senate control which could
go on for years, perhaps the better part of a decade. Pennsylvania,
as we know, is an ultimate swing state, one of
the most important ones. So if Vetterman keeps moving to
the right, it shows that you can't win Pennsylvania by
being a left wing loon, which means you can't be

(05:31):
a true blue Democrat. And this is because the Democrat
Party has moved so far left that there nose ringed, tattooed, necked,
hoodie wearing populist lunatics are unable are unable to win

(05:53):
a majority. That's the truth, especially in a state like
Pennsylvania that still has some working class, old school union
Democrat kind of credentials. So that's where I think you're
going to see this, and the more infighting among Democrats,
the better. Look. I'm not popping the champagne on this
thing yet. Let's just be very clear out. I don't

(06:13):
think that this is a done deal in Fetterman, like
I said, he's ninety percent voting with the Democrats. I
am seeing this with open eyes. He's not going to
switch to the Republican Party. Those headlines are just clickbait,
I think mostly, but an independent showing that he's up
for it certainly better for his own brand, I think
in the state of Pennsylvania showing that his vote is

(06:34):
up for grabs on some things. This is real. I
think this could be meaningful and it's something that we're
certainly looking at going into the Centate because we know
the key Senate races are going to be. I mean,
Georgia with asof that is going to be an absolute
throatoun Michigan is going to be an absolute throwdown. Maine
is going to be a total melee at Donnie Brooke.

(06:57):
So we know what some of the big fights are
going to be. But anything that makes it harder for
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are heading politically here, I was just talking about Pennsylvania.
This story out of Ohio is truly astonishing. We had

(08:26):
him on radio, Luke Rosiac. But the scam, the scale
of the scams going on right now for people who
are tapping into the Medicaid. You have said Medicaid is
just a giant welfare slush fund. Now it's just money
taken from taxpayers distributed by Democrats overwhelming. The Republicans obviously

(08:49):
have a hand in this too, but it's mostly Democrats
and their bureaucracies who are taking their cut, as in
people getting paid to do jobs that don't really need
to be done. To admit, sir, of the funds if
you will, Uh, this is just a giant welfare program
now covers health and a whole lot of other things,
or rather covers medical care. But the reason they like

(09:13):
it is because if you oppose any aspect of it,
they say, you don't want poor people to have medical care.
I mean, we're getting to the point now where we
find out that people are scamming Medicaid to buy ferraris,
and if you say, hey, we need to look into this,
you'll have Democrats protesting. He doesn't want people to have
heart surgery. No I want I don't want anyone to

(09:33):
die of a preventable heart attack. Because they don't have
the money for a surgery. I'm okay with that, obviously,
I'm not okay with people buying ferraris on the taxpayer
dime through Medicaid, and that kind of nonsense is actually happening. Now.
Let me give you this, this Luke Rosiac tweeting. This
guy's the Daily Wire. And this comes after the fraud

(09:55):
that we saw in Minneapolis, the Somali fraud occurring there
with the daycare centers. This home healthcare aid stuff is
really mind blowing. He showed all these different home healthcare companies.
AAU Home Healthcare LLC build twelve million dollars, LA home

(10:18):
Healthcare in build eight million dollars, Midwest Home Healthcare build
eight million dollars. All these different companies are building all
this money. What are they doing? Because he shows video
where all these healthcare companies are located. He shows video
where there's no one there. What kind of company is

(10:41):
billing millions of dollars to medicaid that has no real
office and no employees doing anything. This is the question
you should ask, isn't it? He points out that quote
this is I'm reading from Luke roziaks Twitter. Almost all
are run by all these companies are run by Africans. Well,
I am certain, and the government is not properly monitoring

(11:02):
because our system isn't set up to track people who
all share combinations, combinations of just a few names and
don't have birth dates and quote. Let me tell you this,
this was a real problem. Back when I was working
in counter terrorism. The number of people that would be
Muhammad Ali Mohammad would would blow your mind. And they
would spell the name in government papers different ways, so

(11:24):
you never knew if you got five thousand people in
the New York metro area named Muhammad Ali Mohammad and
they all have different spellings of the name, how do
you know who you're actually dealing with? How do you
know who the person is listed under the LLC now
and the case of counter terrorism, how do you know
who maybe was giving money to al Qaida or acting

(11:46):
on their behalf It's one of thousands of Muhammad Ali Mohammads.
I'm telling you this is a real thing. It's a
real problem. It's not new what Luke is pointing out,
but it's part of the scams. When I was in
New York, there was there was a scam that Yeomeni's
people from Yemen were particularly running or they would have

(12:07):
they would have names that were similar ish and what.
They would come in on tourist visas and operate these
halal meat carts all cash and they would not have
any you know, the health department, nothing, no real regulation
on this whatsoever. And they would pay no taxes of
any kind. And then they would take that cash on

(12:29):
their person back home to Yemen, and then one of
their cousins would come and take over the halal cart
and they would say, hey, you know, what are you
what about We saw so and so and he's supposed
to pay the following tax. I say, I'm not that guy.
I just have this card. I don't know. They were
running the scam for years years, and you might think, oh,
how much money some of those cards wore, make like
five thousand dollars a day, three four five grand a day.

(12:53):
So you can start to doing the math on that one.
And this came up on the radar of the counter
Terrorism Division because they some of these guys were allegedly
funneling money back through all Kaieda in the Arabian Peninsul,
which is trying to commit terrist tax in the US,
So this stuff is not new, but the scale of
the medicaid fraud stuff. That's the part of this that

(13:14):
I think really is new, and is people are seeing
it for the first time and it's outrageous. It's really bothersome.
It should be really bothersome to everybody who is seeing
this because we are being scammed. You know, you have
to abide by all these rules. Meanwhile we are being
scammed big time as Americans who actually do what we're

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