BY MARC LEVY, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — John Fetterman, Pennsylvania‘s lieutenant governor, is taking a definitive step toward running for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022.
But Fetterman, 51, said he is no longer interested in running for governor. He has set up a campaign account for a U.S. Senate run and said he will have a final decision in the coming weeks.
Both offices, governor and U.S. Senate, are coming open in 2023. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, is term limited and U.S. Pat Toomey, a Republican, has said he won’t run again.
Fetterman, the former mayor of small-town Braddock, near Pittsburgh, came in third in 2016’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate before running successfully for lieutenant governor in 2018.
