season that has propped up so-called outsiders like Donald Trump and Ben Carson. He's far from one — even if he looks the part, he said.

Immigration, gun control, and ending the war on drugs are three of the top issues he's campaigning on. He doesn't hold a surprising stance on any of the three for a Democrat, but his perspective on each is different.

Fetterman's wife is from Brazil, and spent years as an undocumented immigrant. He supports comprehensive reform because, as he told The Nation, "I wouldn't have a family if it wasn't for immigration."

A gun owner himself, he thinks the discussion of gun control goes hand in hand with ending the war on drugs.

"I've been mayor of a town now for 10 years and I can definitivelyof those nine were the result of gun violence. The first killing inspired him to start tattooing the dates to his arm.

"I was mayor for give or take 10 days," he said. "Less than two weeks for sure. And it was a pizza deliveryman. He was my age and he was married. He had a 2- or 3-year-old daughter. It was just such an awful and jarring experience to see the horror of a life thrown away for absolutely nothing."

He's still haunted today by that man's death.

"The thought that this man went out and just did his job and was delivering pizza and someone took his life over nothing," he said. "And he'll never get to see his wife again and he died alone on a cold dark