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What John Fetterman Owes Donald Trump
John Fetterman is welcomed on stage during a rally at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Nate Smallwood via Getty Images)
The Democrat is covered in tattoos, favors hoodies, and just had a stroke. Will Pennsylvania voters send the anti-politician to the Senate?
By Peter Savodnik
10.03.22 — U.S. Politics
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INDIANA, Pa. — They trotted him out for nine-and-a-half minutes. All 6’8” of him. Up there in front of this wall of black and white FETTERMAN placards on this makeshift stage in the entrance of a nondescript building on a little university campus an hour east of Pittsburgh. One of his supporters, in a union t-shirt, shouted: “John doesn’t wear the unifo…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is a senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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