As lieutenant governor, he's chaired the pardons board and has been very, you know, anti mass incarceration wants to make sure people who were incarcerated a long time ago have opportunities. Fetterman tweeting this morning, legal weed and PA pass it on. Big proponent of organized labor. The union way of life is sacred. He also over the course of his career, he's kind of gotten more nuanced on fracking on energy issues.
John Fetterman, the 6-foot-8, hoodie and cargo shorts-wearing Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, may be the model for how progressives can win elections. He just needs to beat Dr. Oz.
This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Cristian Ayala and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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