John Fetterman

Pennsylvania has an open Senate seat for the first time in 12 years. While the Democratic race was easily decided, the Republican primary looked like it's ...

It's time to deal them back in, and electing John to the United States Senate would be a big step forward for Pennsylvania's working people." Current Republican Sen. Pat Toomey will resign at the end of his term. Fetterman's win was expected despite the fact that he suffered a stroke last weekend and was not able to attend the last swing of campaign events. On Tuesday his campaign announced he was about to undergo a procedure to implant a pacemaker. The Republican winner and Fetterman will face off in November for the first open Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a dozen years. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, easily won the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, according to a race call by The Associated Press, but the Republican race appeared headed for a recount.

Just a dude” who won Pennsylvania's Democratic nomination for the Senate — days after suffering a stroke.

Mr. Fetterman has repeatedly described himself as a progressive in the past, but in the Senate race he did not seek the left-wing mantle. In that role, he maintained an active presence around the state, building name recognition that played an important role in his primary victory. But he attracted just as much attention for his style, and some saw him as skilled at connecting with blue-collar voters. And he gained fresh prominence with a broader range of voters as a cable-television fixture when Pennsylvania’s 2020 votes were being counted. “He’s a very believable candidate for the working class.” The party’s vulnerability had already been highlighted when Senator Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico suffered a stroke in January. “I’m just doing my thing,” he said in an interview last week. “That’s something he’s been able to build on.” The lieutenant governor lives in Braddock with his three children and his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the second lady of Pennsylvania, who has embraced the acronym “SLOP” and who, like Mr. Fetterman, has an active social media presence. He ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2016 but gained an enthusiastic following, and went on to defeat an incumbent to win his party’s nomination for lieutenant governor in 2018. Then a stroke upended his plans. Mr. Fetterman, the 6-foot-8, hoodie-wearing former mayor of Braddock, Pa., was not a favorite of the party establishment, but he electrified some progressive voters and a broader slice of the Democratic electorate that embraced his blunt-spoken, accessible style and welcomed his pledges to fight aggressively for party priorities in Washington.

Pennsylvania has an open Senate seat for the first time in 12 years. While the Democratic race was easily decided, the Republican primary looked like it's ...

It's time to deal them back in, and electing John to the United States Senate would be a big step forward for Pennsylvania's working people." Fetterman's win was expected despite the fact that he suffered a stroke last weekend and was not able to attend the last swing of campaign events. Current Republican Sen. Pat Toomey will resign at the end of his term. On Tuesday his campaign announced he was about to undergo a procedure to implant a pacemaker. The Republican winner and Fetterman will face off in November for the first open Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a dozen years. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, easily won the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, according to a race call by The Associated Press, but the Republican race appeared headed for a recount.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has won the state's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate just days after suffering a stroke. His wife, Gisele Barreto ...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has won the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate just days after suffering a stroke. Fetterman wins PA Senate Dem. primary, wife speaks

(WHTM) – John Fetterman, the 6'9″ progressive Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, has won the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, ...

The strategy: Take his populist economic message all over Pennsylvania, including the reddest areas of the ultra-competitive commonwealth. Lt. Gov.

“At the same time he also needs to hold on to those recent gains we’ve made among more moderate voters in areas like the Philadelphia suburbs.” “Too many people in this commonwealth and this country are hurting,” she said. “He’s done a great job at building an extraordinary base, not just here in Pennsylvania, that’s excited to get out and get the vote for him. So it’s going to be the Republican nominee’s job to point that out and to show that.” He’s someone who has a different kind of connection to voters,” Fetterman strategist Rebecca Katz said in an interview. “The ads write themselves when you are running against John Fetterman,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Chris Hartline. “He has embraced the far left on just about every issue. Fetterman is as idiosyncratic in substance as he is in style. But I think his base respects him for saying it.” Fetterman doesn’t yet know which Republican candidate he’ll face in the Nov. 8 election, when the Democratic Party faces a grim landscape and strong political headwinds. He has demonstrated the fundraising prowess to run any kind of campaign he wants. In his campaign, he has stressed bread-and-butter issues. … That’s what we did then, and that’s what we’ll do now.”

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, 52, is undergoing a procedure Tuesday to have a pacemaker and defibrillator implanted, his campaign announced in a ...

He will be unable to attend his campaign’s election night rally. Fetterman, the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate on Tuesday’s primary ballot, suffered a stroke last week and has been hospitalized since. “John Fetterman is about to undergo a standard procedure to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator,” his campaign said in a statement Tuesday. “It should be a short procedure that will help protect his heart and address the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation, by regulating his heart rate and rhythm.”

(WHTM) – John Fetterman, the 6'9″ progressive Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, has won the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, ...

Fetterman used his "outsider" appeal to tap into a growing populist electorate in Pennsylvania and ran a campaign focused on voters.

But it has said that doctors reversed the stroke in time to prevent any cognitive damage and that Fetterman is expected to make a full recovery. Fetterman, who was then Braddock’s mayor, has long defended his actions, saying he heard gunfire nearby and made a split-second decision to act in what he thought was an “active shooter situation.” “John Fetterman is trying to rebrand himself from a ‘true progressive’ to ‘just a Democrat’ as he goes head-to-head against the Republican nominee in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race,” the group said. While he hassaid he would support “Medicare for All,” Fetterman has also said hewould support a more modest plan to help drive down costs and expand coverage. Fetterman came in with the highest name recognition thanks to his time as mayor of Braddock and lieutenant governor. As returns rolled in, Fetterman was in a Lancaster hospital with his father and brother. Fetterman set his campaign up extremely well by being the first Democrat to announce in the race and netting the early cash windfall that followed. In a year when Democrats are expected to struggle, Fetterman’s pitch that he could appeal to a wide base clearly resonated. And his “every county” strategy — combined with a social media campaign and TV ads — blanketed his brand statewide. And while predicted by polls and political observers, his win represents a clear shift away from the more moderate candidates Democratic voters typically favor in Pennsylvania primaries. But more historically, outsiders have often done well in the state’s primaries, including Ed Rendell, Joe Sestak, and even Tom Wolf. John Fetterman didn’t just win in Pennsylvania, he trounced his Democratic Senate primary rivals.