Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lt. Governor 2019 to 2022; Mayor, Braddock, PA from 2006 – 2016

Fetterman studied finance at Albright College and earned an MBA from the University of Connecticut before beginning a professional career in the insurance industry. He went on to join AmeriCorps and earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University. Fetterman’s service with AmeriCorps led him to Braddock, where he moved in 2004 and was elected mayor the following year. As mayor, Fetterman sought to revitalize the former steel town through art and youth programs.

Generally described as a progressive and a populist, Fetterman advocates healthcare as a right, criminal justice reform, abolishing capital punishment, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and legalizing cannabis.

The 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania will be held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with, elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a gubernatorial election. This seat is seen by many Democrats as the best possible pick-up opportunity of all the US Senate seats.

The primary was held on May 17, with Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman securing the Democratic nomination.

Meanwhile, in the Republican primary, results were still being tabulated weeks later. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick finished “neck and neck”, separated by a difference of 0.1% or 972 votes. Pennsylvania election law requires an automatic recount if the difference between the top two candidates for a statewide office is 0.5% of the vote or less. On June 3, McCormick conceded the race to Oz, making Oz the first Muslim to be nominated by either major party for U.S. Senate.

Source: Wikipedia