PHILADELPHIA — One is a telegenic TV celebrity who campaigned in fine-cut suits while delivering punchy sound bites in his first run for public office. The other is Pennsylvania’s hulking — often scowling — lieutenant governor, who stumped in hoodies and shorts and on a political career that started in a small, struggling former steel town.
Yet Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman, are in many ways offering voters similar stories: They each promote themselves as outsiders who defy traditional, hidebound politics — while carrying elite credentials.
The early hours of their matchup, after Republican David McCormick conceded the GOP primary to Oz on Friday night, showed how each nominee hopes to puncture the other’s public image.
