Being John Fetterman

BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — Being Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) isn’t difficult because the senior senator from Pennsylvania never stops being himself.

Case in point, it was 3 degrees this morning when I interviewed him, and despite the bone-chilling weather and piles of snowdrifts left by the local salt trucks plowing the borough, he was wearing a black hoodie and cargo shorts without a hint of irony.

THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE LITTLE DINER THAT COULD

“This is who I’ve always been. I can’t be anything other than I am,” he says with that broad smile that somehow manages to rarely be captured.

Fetterman’s presence is about more than his physical stature. His outsize, unvarnished view of the country matches his imposing frame, and new Morning