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    IN SHORTS AND A SWEATSHIRT, JOHN FETTERMAN AIMS TO DRAW A ‘NEW MAP’ FOR DEMOCRATS

    May 13, 2022 4 minutes
    BY CHARLOTTE ALTER

    JOHN FETTERMAN WALKS INTO A BREWERY IN Easton, Pa., with his arms outstretched like a wrestler. The state’s lieutenant governor—6 ft. 8 in., bald and goateed, wearing his trademark Carhartt sweatshirt and athletic shorts—doesn’t bother with his stump speech right away. Instead, he starts working the crowd. He asks if they’re Eagles fans or Steelers fans; crows, “Shorts, 365!” to another year-round-shorts guy; kneels on the ground to accept a “lucky penny” from a little girl; and takes photos with arms so long he calls them “selfie sticks.”

    Fetterman is the front runner in Pennsylvania’s May 17 Democratic Senate primary, a marquee race that could have been a microcosm of the split within the party. His opponents

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