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Conor Lamb is endorsed by 17 unions, 17 Pennsylvania state legislators, and the Mayor of Philadelphia
John Fetterman’s highest profile endorsement is a… Twitter personality from Brooklyn
Very clear who’s the stronger candidate here...unless Bernie endorses Fetterman, which he should!
www.politico.com
excerpt:
Conor Lamb is the kind of swing-state Senate candidate who used to make Democratic power-brokers swoon.
A former Marine and prosecutor, Lamb catapulted onto the national scene in 2018 when he flipped a House seat that Trump carried by nearly 20 points. President Joe Biden said the young, centrist lawmaker reminds him of his late son, Beau
Lamb’s campaign argues that he has a strong case to make to Democratic voters that he is the most electable candidate in one of the premier Senate races in the country. His team remains convinced Fetterman has major liabilities that will sink him once they become widely known
In an interview, Lamb downplayed Fetterman’s strengths in the primary.
“Polling is nowhere near as reliable as people like him make it out to be, particularly this early in a race, so many months before so many people have learned much about us or made up their minds. So in my opinion, the score is 0-0 and the entire game is left to be played,” he said, adding, “If online fundraising was what determined these elections, you’d have either Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump as the president.”
Mustafa Rashed, a Philadelphia-based Democratic consultant, said that Pennsylvania already has “the quintessential white male moderate” in the Senate, Democrat Bob Casey, which might make primary voters more willing to take a chance on a different kind of candidate.
“Pennsylvania has sent however many white men to the United States Senate since the start of the commonwealth’s founding,” said Rashed, who is not working for any campaign in the Senate primary. “And we’ve mostly gotten the same thing out of that. The fired-up part of the Democratic Party thinks we can get a different outcome if we sent a different kind of person there.”
Both Lamb and Fetterman are white men. A white woman who had been running in the primary, Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, dropped out earlier this month. EMILY’s List, a powerful group that supports women who champion abortion rights, had been backing her
A recent development could help Lamb close the money gap with Fetterman: A pro-Lamb super PAC, which is looking to raise more than $8 million, has emerged. A document promoting the group listed the firm founded by Biden’s pollster, John Anzalone, as part of the team.
James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist, boosted the pro-Lamb super PAC in a recent email to potential donors. He said Democrats must win Pennsylvania’s Senate seat to keep control of the chamber, and Lamb is the surest bet in the general election.
Lamb’s campaign believes that Fetterman has not yet been properly vetted in the crucible of a tough campaign, and is coasting on name ID. As one weakness, they point to the fact that Fetterman once pulled a shotgun on a person he thought might be involved in a shooting, but who turned out to be an unarmed Black jogger. Fetterman has said he did not know the race of the man.
Lamb’s opponents, in turn, think that his record as a moderate makes him unacceptable to many Democrats, particularly at a time when centrist Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have drawn the ire of the party base for stymying Biden’s agenda. They believe the Lamb’s voting record — the congressman voted in line with Trump’s position 68 percent of the time during his first eight months in office, according to the website FiveThirty Eight — is poison. Lamb’s campaign argues that’s a cherry-picked statistic, since the same data shows he voted with Trump overall only 22 percent of the time.
John Fetterman’s highest profile endorsement is a… Twitter personality from Brooklyn
Very clear who’s the stronger candidate here...unless Bernie endorses Fetterman, which he should!
The left neutralizes the Dem establishment in Pa. Senate primary
At one time, the Democratic Party would have cleared the Senate field for a candidate like Conor Lamb. Not anymore.
www.politico.com
excerpt:
Conor Lamb is the kind of swing-state Senate candidate who used to make Democratic power-brokers swoon.
A former Marine and prosecutor, Lamb catapulted onto the national scene in 2018 when he flipped a House seat that Trump carried by nearly 20 points. President Joe Biden said the young, centrist lawmaker reminds him of his late son, Beau
Lamb’s campaign argues that he has a strong case to make to Democratic voters that he is the most electable candidate in one of the premier Senate races in the country. His team remains convinced Fetterman has major liabilities that will sink him once they become widely known
In an interview, Lamb downplayed Fetterman’s strengths in the primary.
“Polling is nowhere near as reliable as people like him make it out to be, particularly this early in a race, so many months before so many people have learned much about us or made up their minds. So in my opinion, the score is 0-0 and the entire game is left to be played,” he said, adding, “If online fundraising was what determined these elections, you’d have either Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump as the president.”
Mustafa Rashed, a Philadelphia-based Democratic consultant, said that Pennsylvania already has “the quintessential white male moderate” in the Senate, Democrat Bob Casey, which might make primary voters more willing to take a chance on a different kind of candidate.
“Pennsylvania has sent however many white men to the United States Senate since the start of the commonwealth’s founding,” said Rashed, who is not working for any campaign in the Senate primary. “And we’ve mostly gotten the same thing out of that. The fired-up part of the Democratic Party thinks we can get a different outcome if we sent a different kind of person there.”
Both Lamb and Fetterman are white men. A white woman who had been running in the primary, Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, dropped out earlier this month. EMILY’s List, a powerful group that supports women who champion abortion rights, had been backing her
A recent development could help Lamb close the money gap with Fetterman: A pro-Lamb super PAC, which is looking to raise more than $8 million, has emerged. A document promoting the group listed the firm founded by Biden’s pollster, John Anzalone, as part of the team.
James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist, boosted the pro-Lamb super PAC in a recent email to potential donors. He said Democrats must win Pennsylvania’s Senate seat to keep control of the chamber, and Lamb is the surest bet in the general election.
Lamb’s campaign believes that Fetterman has not yet been properly vetted in the crucible of a tough campaign, and is coasting on name ID. As one weakness, they point to the fact that Fetterman once pulled a shotgun on a person he thought might be involved in a shooting, but who turned out to be an unarmed Black jogger. Fetterman has said he did not know the race of the man.
Lamb’s opponents, in turn, think that his record as a moderate makes him unacceptable to many Democrats, particularly at a time when centrist Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have drawn the ire of the party base for stymying Biden’s agenda. They believe the Lamb’s voting record — the congressman voted in line with Trump’s position 68 percent of the time during his first eight months in office, according to the website FiveThirty Eight — is poison. Lamb’s campaign argues that’s a cherry-picked statistic, since the same data shows he voted with Trump overall only 22 percent of the time.
