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The Pennsylvania Senate race has it all: crudités, allegations of carpetbagging, two outlandish, irregular political personalities going scorched-earth for one of the most competitive seats in the country.
And now, Republicans are pushing a not-so-subtle narrative that Democratic nominee John Fetterman supports—or maybe even has ties to—a gang. The Crips, to be exact.
The Crips news cycle began after the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site, published a piece Monday detailing Fetterman’s use of the Crips-favored spelling of Braddock, Pennsylvania, while running for mayor of the town in 2005. The gang used the spelling “Braddocc”: a moniker Fetterman used in some campaign messaging in an effort to reach younger voters in the run-down steel town.