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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Morwenna Ferrier

‘It’s powerful’: how John Fetterman’s hoodie won the popular vote in Pennsylvania

Fetterman waving in front of US flag.
John Fetterman has said he has ‘negative fashion sense’. Photograph: Quinn Glabicki/Reuters

By his own admission, Pennsylvania’s new senator-elect, John Fetterman, does not look like “a typical politician”.

Just over 6ft 8in with a goatee, tattoos on his forearms and a strong tendency toward workwear (for his official portrait, he chose to sit in a creased, grey Dickies camp shirt in front of the US flag), Fetterman has been described as the state’s first “workwear senator” as well as “a dude in shorts”.

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