Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla) on Monday indicted John Fetterman, a candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate, of wanting to commit voter fraud after he said he opposes mandatory voter identification.
Scott, the Republican Senate National Committee chairman, spoke to Sean Hannity about a few key midterm races, and confidently predicted that the Republican Party would regain control of the upper house of Congress despite friendly Democratic changes. in expectations over the past month. Hannity, apparently still saddened that Fetterman did not agree to come on his show to discuss it, began the clip by criticizing the Keystone Deputy Governor after threatening legal action last week in response to Fetterman’s campaign using Hannity’s name in his fundraising email.
“John, by the way, I see you’re fundraising again from my name. Come to the show, bring your hoodie, and bring your tattoos, strongman, and we’ll talk your attitudes and your own words,” challenged the Fox host. “We have never told a single lie about you. What you are guilty of is called slander and slander.”
Then Hannity mentioned FoxNews.com a story earlier today reported Fettermann’s opposition to voter identity laws. The story quoted Fetterman as being against them because “there are tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who are usually on the poorer side and are people of color less likely to have their ID cards at any given time.”
Scott responded to the story first by seeking to reassure Fox viewers that Dr. Mehmet Oz was a “wonderful” candidate and “best healthcare talk show host in the world”. Scott, who differs On some issues with Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), McConnell may have been motivated last suggestion The quality of Republican candidates in Senate races could be better. (Oz himself opposed the idea on Fox Business Network last week.)
Scott claimed Fetterman was “tolerant of crime”. “He wants to let a third of criminals out now. He wants to legalize drugs and he wants to kill jobs by banning fracking. He wants to rig elections by… getting rid of voter identity. I mean, this guy is an extremist.”
Fetterman, who mocked Republican politicians after the 2020 election by pointing to instances of voter fraud in the GOP, also said Last summer, general requirements for voter ID cards were “cunning and unnecessary.”
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