Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman on Thursday claimed his own party was "toxic" and that he was not sure if they could ever win back white male voters after the 2024 election.

Fetterman suggested the Democratic Party has primarily focused on recruiting people of color and female voters over the years, and he alleged that the party went too far in isolating white men.

"I think [Democrats’] primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them, ‘Hey, I know better than you,’ or 'you’re dopes,' or 'you’re a bro,' or 'you’re ignorant' or, ‘how can you be this dumb? I can’t imagine it.’ And then, by the way, 'they’re fascists. How can you vote for that?'" Fetterman said on Tara Palmeri's “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast.

The senator claimed that when a party goes to the "extreme," like calling someone "fascist" for voting for a certain candidate like Democrats have, then the party in question will "lose the argument," and those voters.

When asked whether he believes anyone can get the white male demographic back in time for the 2026 midterms, Fetterman said he does not believe so.

“Once we’ve kind of turned [our] back on that demographic, it’s going to be difficult to rebuild and replace that with those voters,” Fetterman said. “I think that migration has been an ongoing phenomena for several years and that was front and center, you know, in part of the election in ’24.”

The majority of white voters supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, and 60% of white male voters supported Trump, per The Hill.

The comments come as Fetterman has attempted lately to be an occasional swing vote for Republicans in the Senate. The senator has supported some of Trump's Cabinet nominees since the new president took office, but claimed on Thursday that he would not support Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary.

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