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Pennsylvania’s Fetterman makes 2022 US Senate run official
Associated Press ^ | February 8, 2021 | Marc Levy

Posted on 02/08/2021 10:57:11 AM PST by Olog-hai

Pennsylvania’s larger-than-life lieutenant governor, the 6-foot-8, bald and tattooed John Fetterman, will run for U.S. Senate, making the announcement Monday after kicking off an exploratory fundraising campaign last month that raised over $1 million.

It will be the second bid for U.S. Senate by the plainspoken 51-year-old Democrat. He may ultimately see competition from a member of Congress for his party’s nomination in what could become the nation’s most competitive Senate race in 2022.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, a number of names are circulating — including former Trump administration figures. Another possibility is Jeff Bartos, a suburban Philadelphia real estate investor who started running for U.S. Senate before switching horses to become Fetterman’s opponent for lieutenant governor in 2018.

The Senate seat in the presidential battleground is being left open after two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey announced in October that he would not run again. …

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2022; apepee; fakeelection; fetterman; johnfetterman; senate; stopthesteal; toomey
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The guy who said that you don’t have the right to say that the election was stolen, not even under the First Amendment. Perfect for a totalitarian Senate . . . until the last remnants of the old Republic are swept away . . .
1 posted on 02/08/2021 10:57:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Sounds like a sure loser in a good Republican year. But, if he won it would be ....


2 posted on 02/08/2021 10:59:52 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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He still has the loyal vote counters in Philly, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.


3 posted on 02/08/2021 11:00:45 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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"Pennsylvania"

 face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

4 posted on 02/08/2021 11:03:34 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Olog-hai

Now that we’ve learned that Rat Party Headquarters has figured out how to defraud PA elections with no interference from SCOTUS there can be little doubt of the outcome.


5 posted on 02/08/2021 11:03:54 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: amnestynone
Sounds like a sure loser in a good Republican year. But, if he won it would be ....

Yeah? Who's going to vote in 2022 after their votes were stolen in 2020.

6 posted on 02/08/2021 11:05:19 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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plainspoken 51-year-old Democrat

An act, he's a fraud.

7 posted on 02/08/2021 11:05:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Typical THUG Democrat - He chases black people through his neighborhood brandishing a shotgun.

Tipster: Why did Fetterman pull gun on unarmed jogger if he supports BLM?

Braddock mayor detains jogger after hearing possible gunshots
8 posted on 02/08/2021 11:11:07 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Vaquero

Unfortunately the Democrats will vote. Keep it up and we will be comply snowed out.


9 posted on 02/08/2021 11:11:15 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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“He still has the loyal vote counters in Philly, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.”

And he’s a member of the Dominion party.


10 posted on 02/08/2021 11:11:19 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Olog-hai

Guy is a hard core marxist
Used to have a hammer and sickle on his official page
Exudes that scowly angry “John Brennan” joy


11 posted on 02/08/2021 11:12:18 AM PST by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Olog-hai

Guy is a hard core marxist
Used to have a hammer and sickle on his official page
Exudes that scowly angry “John Brennan” joy


12 posted on 02/08/2021 11:12:49 AM PST by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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I knew an Alice Baker early member was a Fetterman....wonder if it’s him

/s


13 posted on 02/08/2021 11:12:54 AM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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Well, we live in an era where brusqueness and foul-mouthedness are suddenly “plain spoken”.


14 posted on 02/08/2021 11:14:32 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Well, we live in an era where brusqueness and foul-mouthedness are suddenly “plain spoken”.

If your a Dem. If you're a GOPer you hate women and are rude and obnoxious.

15 posted on 02/08/2021 11:17:12 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Olog-hai

He cannot win a statewide race for Senate.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 11:17:26 AM PST by Meatspace
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I was going to make a joke about how famous his last name was in Wyoming, but my free speech rights were chilled by the Woke-Nazis.


17 posted on 02/08/2021 11:17:31 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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It is time for the PA Republican Legislature to inject itself an Fix the PA Voting Laws which should include banning Mail In Voting.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 11:18:36 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Meatspace

Not if Dominion were removed as a factor.


19 posted on 02/08/2021 11:19:17 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

It was time last year.


20 posted on 02/08/2021 11:19:47 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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