Joe Sestak Announces US Senate Run To Unseat Pat Toomey
By John McDevitt
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Former US congressman Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) made the formal announcement today that he is running for the US Senate, challenging the reëlection bid of Republican senator Pat Toomey.
Today, outside Independence Hall, Sestak held up a pair of military-issue boots as he said, "While I don't know all Pennsylvanians, I intend to walk in their shoes."
A group of about one hundred people gathered on Independence Mall, some holding signs that read, "Joe Sestak is Walking In Your Shoes 2016."
Sestak says he is running to restore Americans' lost trust in political leaders:
"The largest deficit we have in America today is not the debt, it's the trust deficit -- that we just don't believe that our leaders would actually say something here in Pennsylvania and then do the same thing. Because they don't, down in Washington, DC, where they vote the other way."
After his speech, Sestak kicked off his vintage white Reebok high-top sneakers and put on a pair of combat boots, then walked with supporters to the war memorials near Penn's Landing. Sestak is a retired three-star US Navy admiral.
