Democrats have been projecting an air of confidence ever since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.

However, Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman recently cautioned that they shouldn't underestimate former President Donald Trump.

Fetterman: Trump "has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania"

"Trump has created a special kind of a hold … he's remade the party and he has a special kind of place in Pennsylvania," Fetterman told The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on Thursday.

The senator suggested that this connection has "only deepened" since Trump faced an assassination attempt while speaking at a Pennsylvania rally earlier this year.

“There is energy and there’s kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania,” @SenFettermanPA tells @jeffreygoldberg. “People are very committed. And Trump is going to be strong … It’s not like a science that can explain it, but you have to just know that it’s real.” #TAF24 pic.twitter.com/4MO5jx401S

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 19, 2024

"I also want people to understand, you know, and it's not science, but there is, there’s energy and there are kinds of anger on the ground in Pennsylvania — and people are very committed and strong," he continued.

Fetterman joked that the former president's lawn signs have come to resemble "the state flower" because "you see that everywhere."

Democrats believed that Clinton's victory "was in the bag"

The lawmaker went on to warn against over confidence among Democrats, citing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss in 2016.

Fetterman denied that he was attempting to "mansplain" to the vice president before hailing Clinton as a "fantastic" nominee.

"Everybody thought that it was in the bag, but that’s not the energy and the other kinds of things that were really consistent with what I'm witnessing all across," Fetterman recalled. "And then, sadly, we saw what happened."

Fetterman's remarks came just one day after Spotlight PA reported that Democrats now have "their weakest voter registration advantage compared to Republicans in recent decades."

Pennsylvania Democrats losing ground on voter registration

It noted that 44% of Pennsylvania voters are registered Democrats while 40.2% are Republicans. That represents a significant change from 2009 when 51.2% of voters in the state were Democrats while just 36.9% were Republicans.

Lara Putnam is a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, and she told the website that Democrats have "never seen such bad numbers."

"Across the board, in every single category of county, including in all of the places where Democrats had been doing well, Democrats’ performance over, especially, the six months before Biden withdrew from the race, was just appalling," she said of recent voter registration trends.