Fetterman says he has no reason to leave Democrats, weeks after cutting an ad for their Republican rival.

…(cont) On September 28th, CBS's Major Garrett asked Senator Fetterman directly whether he would ever leave the party. He does not have a reason to, he said. Nineteen days after Dallas, he is still on the roster. Nobody disputes the seating chart.

On September 29th, the same network asked about November, and he called a Democratic Senate takeover "entirely possible." Confidence. That's ahead of the returns, and it still isn't an answer for Dallas.

Compare the accounting. Rhode Island's Democratic primary voters fired their sitting governor this month, 62.5 percent to 37.5, with eighty percent counted, and the wire's entire explanation runs to one word: a "significant" spending gap. Nothing more is filed. Given a choice, that state's voters made one.

McCormick got a testimonial from a sitting Democrat, free, at his own party's convention. The caucus kept a member who says, on tape, that leaving never crossed his mind, and who told a different camera, nineteen days earlier, that he's a common-sense Democrat standing up for Republicans. Both statements are filed as loyalty. Only one of them reads that way twice.