John Fetterman - a heavy favorite to win Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate nomination - bristles at Bernie Sanders comparisons.
by the Republican nominating contest. When he first ran for the Senate in 2016, Fetterman, the former mayor of small-town Braddock, “barely had gas money,” in his words. In the current race, he has blown his opponents out of the water when it comes tofor chasing down a Black man while carrying a shotgun. His vibe seems to be"not your typical Democrat.
In a closely divided state, Fetterman is looking to win back some of the blue-collar voters who swung to Donald Trump. He acknowledges where his party has failed in longtime Democratic strongholds that turned red in 2016.
His wife, Gisele, has been front and center in his campaign in complimentary ways. Whereas he’s casual and brash, she’s polished and personable. She grew up as an undocumented immigrant — an experience she says plays a role in Fetterman’s approach to immigration policy. Even today, she says, she gets mistaken as the babysitter of their three children and gets more hate mail than her husband.
And Fetterman has some choice words for his fellow Democrats in Washington. “We are squandering, in my opinion, an enormous opportunity to do some transformative good through legislation that is being stopped by a senator like Joe Manchin,” Fetterman said, adding that he is in favor of eliminating the filibuster.
But he says his top three priorities in Washington if he is elected will be to raise the minimum wage,With less than a week to go before the primary, Fetterman continues to have a large lead in the available public polling. Should he win the nomination, Fetterman — and his style — will carry a share of his party's hopes in this fall's battle for control of Congress.
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