{"id":1476008,"date":"2022-05-15T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476008"},"modified":"2022-05-15T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T20:29:43","slug":"breaking-top-democrat-in-u-s-senate-race-in-pennsylvania-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-top-democrat-in-u-s-senate-race-in-pennsylvania-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Top Democrat In U.S. Senate Race In Pennsylvania Hospitalized After Suffering Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-top-democrat-in-u-s-senate-race-in-pennsylvania-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/JF-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The leading Democrat candidate in the U.S. Senate race out of Pennsylvania was hospitalized late last week after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>John Fetterman, who is currently the state\u2019s lieutenant governor, made the revelation in a statement that he released on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday, I wasn\u2019t feeling well, so I went to the hospital to get checked out,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to go \u2014 I didn\u2019t think I had to \u2014 but Gisele insisted, and as usual, she was right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t been feeling well, but was so focused on the campaign that I ignored the signs and just kept going,\u201d he continued. \u201cOn Friday it finally caught up with me. I had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long. Fortunately, Gisele spotted the symptoms and got me to the hospital within minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amazing doctors here were able to quickly and completely remove the clot, reversing the stroke, they got my heart under control as well,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s a good reminder to listen to your body and be aware of the signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not reveal whether or not he was still in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fetterman-oz-mccormick-lead-pennsylvania-senate-democratic-republican-primaries-poll-2022-5\">commanding<\/a> lead over his next closest Democrat challenger in the race.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund executive David McCormick are in a tight race for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman holds far-left views on subjects like abortion, where he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pennsylvania-democrat-there-shouldnt-be-any-limits-on-abortion\">stated<\/a> that he does not believe that there should be any limits on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbortions are going to continue in America whether it is legal or not. They just won\u2019t be safe, if they are illegal, and we can\u2019t ever go back to that. We just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there were \u201cany limitations on abortion\u201d that he would \u201cfind appropriate,\u201d Fetterman responded, \u201cI don\u2019t believe so, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Pennsylvania\u2019s Lt. Gov John Fetterman says he wants to eliminate the filibuster to \u201ccodify\u201d abortion without any limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe [there should be any limits to abortion]\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4QYTualTN6\">pic.twitter.com\/4QYTualTN6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1518972909779312640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fetterman has faced renewed controversy over an incident that happened years ago when he chased down a black man and pulled a gun on him and detained the him until police arrived, thinking that the man had been involved in a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><em>It turned out that the man was jogging and wearing running clothes.\u00a0According to a police report, the man<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was unarmed and said the sound of gunfire was actually fireworks, although two witnesses thought they heard shots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>The man Fetterman pulled a gun on\u00a0is Black. Fetterman \u2014 the mayor of the Pittsburgh-area borough of Braddock at the time and now the state\u2019s lieutenant governor \u2014 is white. Fetterman, 52, said he couldn\u2019t tell the jogger\u2019s race initially because of how he was bundled up in the winter cold.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This report has been updated to include additional information.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading Democrat candidate in the U.S. Senate race out of Pennsylvania was hospitalized late last week after suffering a stroke.John Fetterman, who is currently the state\u2019s lieutenant governor, made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1483095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}