{"id":1628142,"date":"2022-08-31T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628142"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:20:31","slug":"john-fetterman-wont-debate-mehmet-oz-in-early-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-wont-debate-mehmet-oz-in-early-september\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman Won\u2019t Debate Mehmet Oz in Early September"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjohn-fetterman-wont-debate-mehmet-oz-in-early-september%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=1628142&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0Lt. Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-fetterman\">John Fetterman<\/a>, the Democratic nominee in the state\u2019s high-profile U.S. Senate contest,\u00a0said Tuesday that he won\u2019t debate Republican rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mehmet-oz\">Mehmet Oz<\/a> in early September as he recovers from a stroke in May.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement obtained by The Hill,\u00a0Fetterman, who won the Democratic nomination while in the hospital, cited a statement made earlier on Tuesday by Oz\u2019s campaign, which Fetterman described as making fun of his stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/doctoroz.com\/press\/dr-oz-campaign-statement-on-debates\/\">statement<\/a> by Oz\u2019s campaign outlined a list of concessions it\u2019s willing to make to entice Fetterman to take part in a debate next week on KDKA-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s campaign promised, in an apparently mocking tone, that the Republican candidate won\u2019t \u201cintentionally hurt John\u2019s feelings\u201d during the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican\u2019s campaign also promised to allow the Democrat to \u201chave all of his notes in front of him along with an earpiece so he can have the answers given to him by his staff, in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt any point, John Fetterman can raise his hand and say \u2018bathroom break!&#8217;\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIf the topic of his pardoned murderers comes up, we will allow extra time for him to explain that second-degree murder is \u2018not as bad as\u2019 first-degree murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18\/GettyImages-1240736425-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz greets supporters after the primary race resulted in an automatic re-count due to close results on May 17, 2022, in Newtown, Pa. (Stephanie Keith\/Getty Images) Response <\/p>\n<p>What Fetterman appeared to find particularly offensive was the final concession that Oz\u2019s campaign was willing to \u201cpay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, made it \u201cabundantly clear\u201d that Oz and his campaign\u00a0\u201cthink it is funny to mock a stroke survivor.\u201d Fetterman said he won\u2019t participate in the debate, describing it as a \u201cfarce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not be participating in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u00a0Lt. Gov.\u00a0John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in the state\u2019s high-profile U.S. Senate contest,\u00a0said Tuesday that he won\u2019t debate Republican rival Mehmet Oz in early September as he recovers from a stroke in May. According to a statement obtained by The Hill,\u00a0Fetterman, who won the Democratic nomination while in the hospital, cited a statement made earlier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628142","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\/1628142","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\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}