{"id":1479978,"date":"2022-05-18T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479978"},"modified":"2022-05-18T17:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T21:29:47","slug":"pennsylvania-democrats-pick-basketball-shorts-and-hoodie-clad-john-fetterman-over-rising-star-conor-lamb-in-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-democrats-pick-basketball-shorts-and-hoodie-clad-john-fetterman-over-rising-star-conor-lamb-in-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Democrats Pick Basketball Shorts And Hoodie-Clad John Fetterman Over Rising Star Conor Lamb In Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fpennsylvania-democrats-pick-basketball-shorts-and-hoodie-clad-john-fetterman-over-rising-star-conor-lamb-in-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=1479978&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240358002.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, the eyes of the nation were fixed on the Republican primary for Pennsylvania\u2019s open Senate seat. As that race remains too close to call, U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb \u2014 who was broadly considered a Democratic rising star \u2014 was soundly defeated in his party\u2019s primary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman\u2019s victory over Lamb came despite Fetterman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-democrat-in-pennsylvania-senate-race-to-get-pacemaker-campaign-announces-on-election-day\"><span>suffering a stroke<\/span><\/a><span> over the weekend and successfully undergoing a procedure to receive a pacemaker on election day. With 93% of the vote <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/05\/17\/us\/elections\/results-pennsylvania-us-senate.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> as of Wednesday afternoon, Fetterman managed to secure over 59% of the Democratic base \u2014 more than double Lamb\u2019s 26% share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fetterman \u2014 who was the longtime mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, before becoming lieutenant governor in 2019 \u2014 is by no means a conventional candidate. The six-foot-eight, 52-year-old politician is known for wearing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/05\/john-fetterman-is-democrats-senate-hopeful-in-cargo-shorts.html\"><span>basketball shorts and a hoodie<\/span><\/a><span> to campaign events. As Fetterman said in one campaign <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/14\/us\/politics\/fetterman-pennsylvania-democratic-primary.html\"><span>interview<\/span><\/a><span>: \u201cI\u2019m just a dude that shows up and just talks about what I believe in, you know?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D-PA) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JPMCJgQPbw\">pic.twitter.com\/JPMCJgQPbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dripped out Politicians (@PoliticDrip) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliticDrip\/status\/1526751516509487107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>In 2013, Fetterman reacted to what he believed to be gunfire by pulling a shotgun on an African-American and detaining him until police arrived. The incident has generated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649\"><span>unease<\/span><\/a><span> among black Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, Conor Lamb is a Marine veteran and former prosecutor who earned national recognition for defeating Rick Saccone, a Republican, in the 2018 special election for Pennsylvania\u2019s 18th congressional district. As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/conor-lamb-pennsylvania-congress.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> recently described, Lamb is a \u201cmoderate who had won in Trump territory and swing suburbs alike.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, the 37-year-old, clean-cut lawmaker failed to excite the Democratic base in what promises to be a polarizing midterm season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe had rock star potential \u2014 their campaign flittered that away,\u201d longtime Pennsylvania Democratic operative and Lamb supporter Mike Mikus told The New York Times. \u201cThey ran a campaign that said, \u2018Let\u2019s stay above the fray. Everyone\u2019s going to love it.\u2019 But they were behind from the day he got in the race and ran the wrong campaign to close the gap.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden endorsed neither Lamb nor Fetterman in the Senate primary \u2014 even though he did <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/biden-sidelines-conor-lamb-faced-long-odds-pa-senate-primary-rcna29345\"><span>mistakenly thank<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cSenator Lamb\u201d in a recent promotional stop for his infrastructure law. Biden has also compared Lamb to his late son, Beau, on multiple occasions and campaigned alongside Lamb in his 2018 congressional race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday evening, President Biden lauded Fetterman for his victory, saying in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1526735610198863872\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> that the nominee \u201cunderstands that working class families in Pennsylvania and across the country have been dealt out for far too long.\u201d The statement also condemned any Republican that Fetterman faces in the fall as \u201ctoo dangerous, too craven, and too extreme\u201d to represent Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>National media has focused on Pennsylvania as a key \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/08\/us\/politics\/midterms-abortion-pennsylvania.html?smid=url-share\"><span>abortion battleground<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d ahead of the Supreme Court\u2019s likely overturning of <\/span><i><span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i><span>. Pennsylvania currently has a Republican-led legislature \u2014 meaning that policies surrounding abortion could be largely shaped by the outcome of the fall elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Pennsylvania Department of State said in a Tuesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/live-blog\/primary-elections-live-updates-2022-rcna29127?icid=ed_npd_nn_nn_np_liveblog#rcrd2040\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> that the results of many close elections will not be immediately available. Among these races is the Republican Senate primary, in which television host Dr. Mehmet Oz and former Bush official David McCormick are the top contenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe expect to have unofficial results within a few days,\u201d the statement said. \u201cGiven the possibility of recounts and the need for official certifications, it is unlikely that final results in all races will be available tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the eyes of the nation were fixed on the Republican primary for Pennsylvania\u2019s open Senate seat. As that race remains too close to call, U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1483624,"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-1479978","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\/1479978","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}