{"id":1634241,"date":"2022-09-06T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634241"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:34:46","slug":"fettermans-hometown-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-after-skipping-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fettermans-hometown-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-after-skipping-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman\u2019s Hometown Newspaper Questions His \u2018Ability To Serve\u2019 After Skipping Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ffettermans-hometown-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-after-skipping-debate%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=1634241&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><\/div>\n<p>Democrat John Fetterman&#8217;s hometown newspaper questioned the Pennsylvania Senate hopeful&#8217;s &#8220;ability to serve&#8221; after he pulled out of a debate with Republican Mehmet Oz, citing his recovery from a stroke earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing editorial, the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2022\/09\/06\/mehmet-oz-stroke-auditory-processing-debate-john-fetterman-election-senate-pennsylvania-health\/stories\/202209020009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Fetterman&#8217;s refusal to debate raises &#8220;legitimate concerns&#8221; about his health. &#8220;Voters have a right to know whether their prospective senator can do the job\u2014including handling the give-and-take of a vigorous debate,&#8221; the editorial board said.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, Pennsylvania&#8217;s lieutenant governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/fetterman-wont-debate-oz-cites-recovery-from-massive-stroke\/\">said<\/a> last week he would skip a debate with Oz this week as he works on his &#8220;auditory processing and speech&#8221; following a stroke in May. Fetterman also accused the Oz campaign of mocking his health for offering to provide medical personnel during the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&#8217;s recovery has been far slower than expected. While his campaign initially said he would be back on the campaign trail &#8220;soon&#8221; after his stroke, he has made only a few public appearances and done even fewer interviews. Fetterman has relied heavily on his wife Gisele during those events. She sat by his side during an MSNBC interview last week, his first national interview since his stroke. Gisele was also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRSC_Rapid\/status\/1567166684607221762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotted<\/a> on Monday intervening as Fetterman was asked whether he would debate Oz.<\/p>\n<p>Oz has made Fetterman&#8217;s criminal justice reform policies a focal point of his campaign. On Tuesday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOz\/status\/1567121686339747840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-senate-candidate-voted-to-free-convicted-murderer-who-killed-18-year-old-for-heroin-money\/\">report<\/a> that Fetterman cast the only vote on the board of pardons to release Wayne Covington, who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a man while stealing money for heroin. Fetterman voted to free Covington last year, against the wishes of the victim&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has not said whether he will debate Oz before the election in November. He said last week he &#8220;look[s] forward to having a productive discussion about how we can move forward and have a real conversation on this once Dr. Oz and his team are ready to take this seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat John Fetterman&#8217;s hometown newspaper questioned the Pennsylvania Senate hopeful&#8217;s &#8220;ability to serve&#8221; after he pulled out of a debate with Republican Mehmet Oz, citing his recovery from a stroke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"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-1634241","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\/1634241","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634241\/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=1634241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}