Pittsburgh was front and center last weekend in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race as Republican nominee Mehmet Oz held a press conference downtown on Sept. 30 while Democratic opponent John Fetterman spoke at a rally in the city’s Strip District the next day.
Fetterman is Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor and a former longtime mayor of Braddock, a borough of 1,633 eight miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
At the Oct. 1 rally, Fetterman walked out to the stage to “Renegade,” a 1979 song by Styx that is a fan favorite during Steelers’ home games.
“I’m kind of a Heinz Stadium, Dr Oz is more of an Acrisure Stadium,” Fetterman said….