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I'm John Batch, Sir. John Fetterman is the senior senator from Pennsylvania, a former mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, for many years,

a Harvard graduate and a man who admitted his troubled life when he withdrew to take care of his

depression following a stroke during the campaign. In other words, he's had some hard knocks.

However, I recognize John Fetterman because helping my grandfather in the 1950s,

licking stamps, sending packages out for the Republican ward, we lived in eastern Pennsylvania,

13th congressional district. The opponents were conservative Democrats, and they did very well,

and grandfather worried about their policies because they

weren't that distinct from promoting Eisenhower.

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