D.C. Dems get out of frontrunner Fetterman's way in Pennsylvania, as Liz Warren asks for anti-Fetterman ad to be pulled off the air

[basquebromance]

Choose your fighter.

Sen. Stabenow said Fetterman is “the kind of populist that I think would do very well in Pennsylvania.”

Sen. Joe Manchin, said that Lamb would “be an outstanding U.S. senator.”

D.C. Dems get out of frontrunner Fetterman's way in Pennsylvania

The filibuster-hating, gym-shorts-wearing lieutenant governor got the party's cold shoulder when he ran in 2016. But not this year.

www.politico.com

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The filibuster-hating, gym-shorts-wearing lieutenant governor got the party's cold shoulder when he ran in 2016. But not this year.

In fact, party leaders on Tuesday heard private concerns about a pro-Lamb super PAC after the group slammed Fetterman as a “self-described Democratic socialist,” a claim that led to the ad being pulled from one TV station. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised the ad during a Democratic caucus meeting on Tuesday, and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Gary Peters said they were addressing the issue, according to several attendees.

“I saw the PAC ad that is currently running in Pennsylvania. It is wrong and it is disgusting. And if Conor Lamb wants to stand up as a Democrat, then he needs to disavow that ad today,” Warren said in an interview on Wednesday.

 

[kyzr]

The democrat primary is between Fetterman and Connor Lamb. Getting nasty already. Good to see.

Then in November the dem winner gets Dr Oz, or McCormick. Should be a good election cycle.