Pennsylvania’s Nutty Senate Race
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pennsylvania’s got a U.S. Senate seat up for grabs, and the primary is shaping up to be a showdown between moderate, establishment candidates and those on the fringes of each party.
Guest: Jonathan Tamari, national political writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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| 0:34.9 | Jonathan Tamari covers politics over the Philadelphia Inquirer. And here's how he knew |
| 0:40.9 | 2022 was going to be busy for him. A couple years back, he was driving all the way from |
| 0:46.9 | the northwest corner of Pennsylvania to DC when he got some news. Republican Senator Pat |
| 0:52.8 | Tumy was going to be retiring. Well, this was in the middle of the presidential race, |
| 0:58.6 | and it was stunning that he announced that early. |
| 1:07.8 | And fortunately, I was able to break that story, and I'm like sitting at a rest stop on |
| 1:12.5 | the Pennsylvania turnpike. And I'm tweeting and reporting, and you know, a Times reporter |
| 1:18.5 | quote tweeted in and said, this is going to make a crazy Senate race. And I was like, man, |
| 1:22.3 | I'm just trying to survive 2020. Can we not look ahead to 2022 right now? This was |
| 1:27.6 | like October 2020. We had a month ago. |
| 1:35.6 | The reason this Senate race is so crazy has more to do with the state of Pennsylvania |
| 1:40.3 | than anything else. The Keystone state is considered a bellweather for a lot of communities. |
| 1:45.8 | It's got an East Coast urban core. That's Philly. There's Pittsburgh with its Midwestern |
| 1:51.0 | Rust Belt vibe. And some regions feel like Appalachia. |
| 1:54.8 | There's a part of Pennsylvania kind of south of Harrisburg that almost has a southern feel. |
| 1:59.6 | It's like right over the Maryland panhandle. It's a little America. It is. It is. And the same |
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