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57% of his own party wants him gone and he responded by meeting Netanyahu and attacking Mamdani. That is not a senator reading the room, that is a senator leaving the building.

Senator John Fetterman would lose a hypothetical re-election race by 18 points to a generic "someone else" candidate if the election were held today, according to new PennLive/Bravo Group polling released Wednesday.

The survey found that 58 percent of Pennsylvania voters would choose "someone else" over Fetterman, compared to just 40 percent who would back the senator. Thirty percent said they would "definitely" vote for someone else, while only 12 percent said they would "definitely" choose Fetterman. His approval rating sits underwater, with 47 percent disapproving and 45 percent approving.

Fetterman is not up for re-election until 2028 and has declined to say whether he plans to run again.

The numbers reflect sustained frustration with the senator from within his own party. A Quinnipiac University poll earlier this month found that 57 percent of Democrats want Fetterman to leave the party. He has recently floated the possibility of switching affiliations, saying that ending aid to Israel would be a "red line for me."

Fetterman has repeatedly broken with Democrats to side with Republicans on war-related votes, including casting the deciding vote against a Senate resolution attempting to rein in Trump's war on Iran. He also joined Republicans in sinking a Democratic motion to bar Trump from waging war on Cuba in April.

This week, Fetterman met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called him a "stellar patriot." Fetterman called the meeting "a supreme honor of my time" and took aim at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his "ridiculous claims" about Netanyahu.