John Fetterman officially threw his hat in the ring for the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania on Monday, handing Democrats a candidate with growing national name recognition for a race viewed as a potential pickup. John Fetterman at the Carrie Furnaces, a former steel mill near Braddock in 2018. A long time mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Fetterman’s profile has grown after a failed run for the Senate in 2016. Fetterman is a self-described democratic socialist who was the only statewide Democrat in Pennsylvania to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2016. “We’ve lost 90% of our population and 90% of our buildings,” Fetterman told the Times then.

Source: Forbes February 08, 2021 14:15 UTC