Fetterman’s Opponents Go on Attack in Pennsylvania Senate Debate

  • Three Democrats seeking to replace Toomey in crucial contest
  • Lieutenant governor on defensive over taxes, shotgun episode
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Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman’s opponents in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate used a debate Thursday night to criticize his proposal for a gas tax holiday, his plans for a billionaires tax and a 2013 episode in which he confronted a Black jogger with a shotgun.

It was the second debate among the Democratic candidates, and the first in which the front-runner, Fetterman, participated. So U.S. Representative Conor Lamb, State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta took turns attacking the lieutenant governor on fracking, health care and taxes.