At nearly 7 feet tall, with his town's zip code tattooed on his arm, John Fetterman says he knows he's not the stereotypical politician. In fact, he's proud of it.
"I may not look like a traditional elected official, but look past that and look at the ideas and look at the record," he says.
The Braddock Mayor spent the night in Bethlehem speaking with voters, trying to convince them to elect him to the US Senate.
He told them his career has included the last 11 years he's spent leading Braddock, a small town that he says is home to the last functioning steel mill in the Pittsburgh region and where, he claims, he's done away with gun violence, dealt with hunger, helped increase wages, and focused on the drug war.
In fact, in a campaign video, Fetterman takes people inside a drug home in his community.
Now he wants to take his ideas and fight on a larger scale for unions and LGBT rights - he says he can, because he's done it in his town.
He has to get past his two democratic opponents first: Joe Sestak and Katie McGinty. He says he believes he can beat them, and then move on to the Republican challenger, Senator Pat Toomey.
"If money is what matters to you as a voter, Pat Toomey has a lot more of it than I do, than a lot of us do on the democratic side, but I think it really is a lot more about ideas and the direction you want to take this country in," Mayor Fetterman says.
And this Harvard-educated Mayor says, he hopes you'll see him as a totally different option. In fact, he'd be honored if you would.
"If you want an actual working elected official, not someone who results talking points, and not someone who's been campaigning over the last 7 years, I believe that we are the strongest choice."
Pennsylvania's primary is April 26.