John Fetterman is neither a centrist nor a progressive. He’s a vibe, and he just won a Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania
, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, won the U.S. Senate primary in Pennsylvania. The ending matched a lead he maintained for the entire race, despite suffering a stroke late last week and undergoing surgery to install a pacemaker on primary day.
Fetterman’s success defies easy categorization at a time when Democrats are desperate to identify what sort of candidate can prevail amid their president’s relative unpopularity. Much of that sorting has been about where the ideal candidate sits on the progressive-to-moderate spectrum — with all parties involved, unsurprisingly, arguing that the ideology they prefer on policy grounds is also the one that’s most politically expedient.
It also swelled ambitions for Joe Biden, born in nearby Scranton and obsessed with drawing disillusioned former Democrats back into the party’s fold. Biden had been the only Democrat Lamb allowed to campaign with him during that first 2018 run. Lamb, in turn, inspired Biden’s own 2020 presidential campaign strategy. After Biden’s 2020 victory, Lamb
Some of that has to do with his politics: He endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016 and used his perch as lieutenant governor to hold a 67-county listening tour on legalizing marijuana. Some of that has to do with his aesthetics: The media can’t resist gawking at his 6-foot-9 stature, tattooed, bald, bearded, and often bedecked in a hoodie, black Sketcher sneakers, and baggy gym shorts that fall past his knees .
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