{"id":1478794,"date":"2022-05-17T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478794"},"modified":"2022-05-17T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:15:00","slug":"john-fetterman-wins-pennsylvania-dem-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-wins-pennsylvania-dem-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman Wins Pennsylvania Dem Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-fetterman-wins-pennsylvania-dem-senate-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman won the Democratic primary for the state\u2019s open Senate seat Tuesday night, according to multiple outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, who consistently led in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/pa\/pennsylvania_senate_democratic_primary-7536.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polls<\/a>, defeated Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb, who gave up his seat in the House to campaign for the Senate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Politics\/status\/1526728056118861825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1526726957253201921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The lieutenant governor won the primary despite announcing he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/15\/pennsylvania-senate-primary-john-fetterman-stroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suffered a stroke<\/a> on Friday. He was unable to attend election night proceedings, as he is currently in the hospital. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/pivotal-primary-races-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Fetterman is considered to be a left-wing politician, he has come out against a number of positions hailed by his ideological counterparts. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/john-fetterman-calls-out-squad-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> members of the left-wing House group known as \u201cThe Squad\u201d were \u201cmisguided\u201d for their anti-Israel stances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PA \u2014 THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ME AS YOUR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!!!! \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m *so* deeply honored. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6sa7bC5Vrw\">pic.twitter.com\/6sa7bC5Vrw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1526728612187099142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/19\/joe-biden-john-fetterman-title-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voiced opposition<\/a> to the Biden administration\u2019s decision to end Title 42 without a plan to deal with the predicted influx of migrants at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t only need a long-term and detailed plan here for ending Title 42, but we still need to fix our broken immigration system as a whole,\u201d Fetterman said in April.<\/p>\n<p>He has faced criticism for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/10\/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-shotgun-black-jogger-miaryes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulling a shotgun<\/a> on an unarmed black man, Christopher Miyares, in 2013. Fetterman, who was the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, at the time, alleged he heard what sounded like gunshots and decided to follow Miyares, who was jogging.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman denied ever pointing the gun at Miyares but acknowledged he pulled it out and made it visible to the jogger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s trying to make it like it\u2019s okay, he\u2019s trying to justify what he did. I mean, you\u2019re the mayor of Braddock\u2026with a shotgun,\u201d Miyares said in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/braddock-mayor-detains-jogger-after-hearing-possible-gunshots-1\/7459686#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview<\/a> with WTAE following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman won the Democratic primary for the state\u2019s open Senate seat Tuesday night, according to multiple outlets.Fetterman, who consistently led in the polls, defeated Democratic Rep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1483495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}