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Jeff Bartos Announces Bid for US Senate
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JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
PHILADELPHIA-AREA real
estate developer Jeff Bartos
began his campaign for U.S.

Senate on March 8 with a video
announcement and a colorful
message. “I’m running for U.S.

Senate to get s--- done,” Bartos
tweeted alongside his three-
minute video, “The Drive,” in
which he laces up work boots,
bumps elbows with masked
Pennsylvanians and cruises
down small-town main drags
in a Chevy as he makes his
pitch. Bartos is running for
the seat held by Sen. Pat
Toomey, the Senate Banking
Committee’s ranking member
who is retiring at the end of
his term.

Bartos, who cites South
Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and
former GOP congressman Jack
Kemp as models for his polit-
ical career, voted for Trump in
2016 and 2020.

“As we said in our video,
President Trump represented,
for millions of Pennsylvanians,
someone fighting for them, and
these are forgotten women and
men who really felt for gener-
ations that elected officials in
Washington had forgotten
them,” Bartos said. “The
Trump administration made
a point of focusing on smaller
towns and smaller communi-
ties and taking rallies to these
smaller communities. And so,
you’ve seen through our work
over the last 10 months that
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