Sunday’s pile-on at Muhlenberg College was expected. With little time left to erode Fetterman’s advantage, the tone of his rivals and the intensity of the race has shifted considerably.
ALLENTOWN — The empty podium at stage right took a lot of hits on Sunday.
And Lamb immediately brought up a 2013 incident that has loomed over Fetterman’s campaign, in which Fetterman pulled a shotgun on a Black jogger who he had wrongly suspected of a shooting. Fetterman, after meeting with supporters at an inn in rural Chambersburg at the same time his opponents were lobbing attacks onstage, called Lamb desperate.
Kenyatta said incidents of vigilante justice have resulted in tragedy in recent years, and dismissed Fetterman’s frequent defense that he didn’t know the race of the jogger as irrelevant. “It absolutely was a situation that was chaotic and spontaneous,” Fetterman said Sunday. “And I certainly would never want to repeat it.”The focus on Fetterman, who was represented by an empty podium on stage, overshadowed a debate that was at times substantive and nuanced, on issues including natural gas drilling. But the candidates themselves kept the focus on that empty podium, in ways big and small.
The tone between Lamb and Kenyatta was largely cordial, though they did clash at times. Kenyatta called Lamb’s voting record in Congress too conservative. Fetterman said Sunday that his past support for a fracking moratorium was tied to calls for more environmental regulations that have since been met. He said that while he wants to fight climate change, Democrats have to “honor and take care of” workers and communities that depend on the energy industry, and acknowledge the national security implications of having domestic energy supplies.
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