Tremendous Bowl evokes bipartisan wager as PA Sens go ‘all in for the birds’

Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., put social gathering politics apart to assist the Philadelphia Eagles at SuperBowl LIX, buying and selling of their partisan feud for a pleasant wager with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. 

The Pennsylvania senators are each Pittsburgh Steelers followers who had been “all in for the birds” on the massive recreation. Earlier than the birds may fly Sunday evening, Marshall, who’s a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs fan, introduced the senators’ pleasant guess. With the Eagles’ win, Marshall should put on Eagles gear and owes McCormick and Fetterman Kansas Metropolis barbecue.

“@RogerMarshallMD, you are on. Could one of the best staff win. Wanting ahead to consuming some KC BBQ and seeing you sport some @Eagles gear,” McCormick replied to Marshall. 

“Gotta cease by @SenMcCormickPA’s workplace to get a few of that barbecue since we’re successful this wager,” Fetterman added. 

TRUMP RECEIVES RAUCOUS RECEPTION AS HE SALUTES DURING SUPER BOWL LIX NATIONAL ANTHEM

Senators Dave McCormick, R-P.A., and John Fetterman, D-P.A., put social gathering politics apart to assist the Philadelphia Eagles at SuperBowl LIX.  (Getty)

Whereas McCormick joined forces along with his Democratic counterpart to assist the Eagles, the Republican senator caught a journey to the sport on Air Power One with President Donald Trump, Marshall and different senate colleagues. 

TRUMP SIGNS PROCLAMATION DECLARING FEBRUARY 9 ‘GULF OF AMERICA DAY’ AHEAD OF SUPER BOWL: ‘ANOTHER BIG WIN’

President Trump signed an government order declaring Feb. 9 as “Gulf of America Day” as Air Power One flew over the newly renamed physique of water on the best way to Tremendous Bowl LIX. After the sport, McCormick stated he spoke to the president about protecting his marketing campaign guarantees for Pennsylvania. 

“[I] had the prospect to speak to him and advocate for Pennsylvania to maintain the guarantees we made to unleash vitality dominance, forestall the specter of fentanyl from devastating our communities, and produce down the price of dwelling,” McCormick stated. 

On his approach to Tremendous Bowl LIX, President Trump signed an order declaring Feb. 9 as “Gulf of America Day.” (Daniel Torok/Chief White Home Photographer)

Fetterman trolled McCormick on-line all through his 2024 senatorial marketing campaign, calling him “Connecticut Dave.” However McCormick and Fetterman have discovered frequent floor for Pennsylvania for the reason that election — on extra than simply soccer groups and pleasant wagers.

McCormick and Fetterman agreed to “break bread” in January, assembly for dinner with their wives to debate coverage for Pennsylvania.

Fetterman has been one in every of few Democratic senators keen to work throughout the aisle beneath Trump’s second time period. He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and met along with his cupboard nominees on Capitol Hill. 

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