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Republican Group’s Ads Take On Fetterman Over Gun Incident Involving Black Jogger [1]

['Katie Glueck']

Date: 2022-10-04

The super PAC affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition is beginning a significant ad buy in Pennsylvania that aims to draw attention to a 2013 incident in which John Fetterman, now the Democratic nominee for Senate, moved to detain an unarmed Black jogger.

The $1.5 million buy includes two ads on the subject aimed predominantly at the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh markets. They will run on broadcast television and are intended to reach Black voters, according to Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican group. The ad campaign will begin on Tuesday and run through Election Day, he said.

The strikingly negative ads focus on a moment that Mr. Fetterman’s Democratic opponents pummeled him over in the primary. When Mr. Fetterman was the mayor of Braddock, Pa., he brandished a shotgun to stop and detain an unarmed Black jogger, telling police he had heard gunshots and saw the man running, according to the police report.

In the new set of ads, narrators — both of whom are Black — relay aspects of the incident and express outrage.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/politics/fetterman-ads-black-jogger-gun.html

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