Pennsylvania Gov. John Fetterman (D) formally announced Monday that he will seek the open seat in the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Fetterman showed up to take part in what is expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive races last week, but was bold about whether it constituted a formal announcement. The lieutenant governor raised more than $ 1 million after opening a campaign account in January.
“The talk is cheap, but for the past twenty years I’ve been working to represent, rebuild, and advance in these places,” Fetterman, former mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, said in a video announcing his career Monday.
“It is not rural versus urban, it is rural and urban. I will fight not for a part of Pennsylvania, not for a party of Pennsylvania, but for a Pennsylvania. In the same way that I did it as mayor, in the same way that I am acting as lieutenant governor, and in the same way that I would do it as your next senator from the United States, ”he added.
Thanks to the 37,000 base donors that increased.
Now it’s my turn.
We start working https://t.co/6ZiSPrhnpS pic.twitter.com/rvjKE6z0Y3
– John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) February 8, 2021
In a tweet Monday morning, Fetterman pledged to “be 100% sedition-free” as a senator, an apparent reference to a coalition of Republican Party senators who opposed ending the president’s college election victory. Biden in January. Retired Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey
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If you send me to the United States Senate, I will always be 100% sedition free.
We, as a nation, crossed borders that I never thought we would, could not even make.
My commitment to you: to maintain sacred basic ideals such as democracy + the peaceful transfer of power.
– John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) February 8, 2021
Toomey announced in late 2020 that he would not seek a third term. In January, the senator. Rob Portman
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Fetterman lost the 2016 Democratic primary to challenge Toomey against Kathleen McGinty, who lost 1.4 points in the general election. State Senator Sharif Street (D) has said he will also apply for the Democratic nomination in 2022, while Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D) and Conor Lamb (D) are also considering his bids.