Ryan Grim

Okay, sorry.

There was one more piece of this that I wanted to read real quick.

So they say in the piece that when he's on Capitol Hill, this guy, Safir, will hang out and sit in Fetterman's office all day or walk with him to the Senate floor, according to a former staffer.

After their conversations, Fetterman would appear far more radicalized, I'm guessing specifically on Israel.

Federman has largely sidetracked other legislative matters, according to the staffer, and is now spending most of his time focusing on Israel.

A few people working for Federman have begun to joke that he is the senator from Tel Aviv and call Safir the chief because he's apparently more powerful than the actual chief of staff.

So maybe Federman has a future there.

Although it's probably true that his approval rating in Tel Aviv is probably higher than Philadelphia.

Certainly.

He won't go to Philadelphia.

McCormick, actually, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania recently went to Philadelphia as kind of just a try, just a taunt.

Fetterman, like Republicans usually don't bother going to Philadelphia because there are no votes there for them.

But he went there, he hung out with the mayor, he had cheese steak, he did put out a video about it.

Partly it was to taunt Fetterman, who just refuses to go to Philadelphia, the biggest city in the state.

Incredible.

It's crazy.

People are chirping in his ear and puffing him up because he's detached from reality.

And that's common in the Senate, actually.

But he, I think, lacks the capacity to fully grasp what's happening around him.

And that's really sad.