BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — Sixteen years after winning the mayor’s office of this steel town located on the banks of the Monongahela River by one provisional ballot, John Fetterman has announced his run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Lehigh Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.

It marks the second time the current Pennsylvania lieutenant governor has jumped into a Democratic primary for this seat. In 2016, both he and former Rep. Joe Sestak lost the party nomination to former state Energy Secretary Katie McGinty, who went on to lose to Toomey in the general election.