Gisele Fetterman Reveals Opposition to Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s Presidential Ambitions
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, said she would not be supportive of her husband running for president in an interview set to release Wednesday.
Gisele was asked by Meghan McCain, host of the “Citizen McCain” podcast, if her husband had “any ambitions to run for president,” according to a clip obtained by Fox News Digital Monday.
“That’s a question for him,” she told McCain. “But, I certainly wouldn’t be supportive of that.”
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The 55-year-old senator has held several political positions including mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2019 in addition to lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2023.
Gisele further shut down any theories about her running for office in the interview.
“It seems like you have no interest in running for office,” McCain said.
“Never,” Fetterman quickly responded. “I have never told anyone in my entire life that I would run for office or had any desire to. You couldn’t pay me to run for office.”
In 2022 rumors circulated that Gisele would take over her husband’s senate seat after he suffered a stroke. Rolling Stone reporter Kara Voght in a since-deleted Twitter post referred to Giselse as the “de facto candidate” and “key surrogate for her husband” in his campaign following his health issues.
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Voght shared her article titled, “John Fetterman Had a Stroke. Gisele Fetterman Became a Political Star,” saying in a caption that she wrote about how the stroke transformed Gisele “from a reluctant political spouse to de facto candidate and political star,” Fox News previously reported.
The reporter later revised her tweet saying she wrote about Gisele’s “evolution from reluctant political spouse, to key surrogate for her husband as he recovered from a stroke, to a political force unto herself.”
“I deleted a previous tweet sharing this story in which, in hindsight, I was imprecise with my word choices and what I intended to convey about Gisele’s role,” Voght later said.
In a 2023 op-ed with Elle Magazine, Giselse wrote about the “promoted conspiracy theories claiming I was an ambitious, power hungry wife, secretly plotting to fill his Senate seat.”
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“It was all so wildly preposterous,” she wrote.
Gisele told McCain the claims of her running for office are “bizarre,” and revealed she believes the comments were made for “clicks.”
“It’s so strange. Now it makes me so, I feel for really famous people like celebrities cause I think all the things I’ve read about them, I don’t believe anything now,” she said. “Because it’s probably not true either.”
McCain’s full interview with Gisele is set to release Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. eastern time.
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