{"id":1636378,"date":"2022-09-08T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636378"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:19:48","slug":"john-fetterman-to-debate-mehmet-oz-after-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-as-us-senator-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-to-debate-mehmet-oz-after-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-as-us-senator-report\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman to Debate Mehmet Oz After Newspaper Questions His Ability to Serve as US Senator: Report"},"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\">34<\/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-to-debate-mehmet-oz-after-newspaper-questions-his-ability-to-serve-as-us-senator-report%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=1636378&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,\u00a0on Wednesday said he\u2019ll debate\u00a0Republican rival\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mehmet-oz\">Mehmet Oz<\/a>\u00a0after a Pennsylvania newspaper questioned if he was not fit enough for office.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has previously said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/john-fetterman-wont-debate-mehmet-oz-in-early-september_4700796.html\">would not<\/a>\u00a0take part in a suggested early September debate, citing his ongoing recovery from a stroke in May and offense at a statement by Oz\u2019s campaign which, in an apparent mocking tone, alluded to the Democrat\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s campaign\u00a0offered to make concessions for Fetterman in a bid to entice him to agree to a debate, among which included allowing him to read from notes, have extra time, and have standby medical help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cWe\u2019re absolutely going to debate Dr. Oz, and that was really always our intent to do that. It was just simply only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of the stroke, the auditory processing, and we\u2019re going to be able to work that out,\u201d Fetterman said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/09\/07\/fetterman-to-politico-i-will-debate-oz-00055301\">exclusive interview<\/a> with Politico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Fetterman noted that his team was \u201cexploring\u201d using closed captioning to aid his hearing, which has been a recurring issue since he rejoined the campaign trail in August after his stroke in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cI have every ability to talk about all of these issues and have a full debate. And that\u2019s really just the one lingering issue of the stroke\u2014that some of my hearing was damaged a little bit, but it\u2019s continuing to get better and better and better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Newspaper Editorial Questions Fetterman\u2019s Ability to Serve as a US Senator <\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburg Post-Gazzette on Tuesday noted that a live debate would \u201cassure\u201d voters that Fetterman is \u201cup to the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u2019s editorial board\u00a0suggested the Democrat\u2019s campaign has been \u201coptimistic\u201d about the U.S. Senate candidate\u2019s recovery from his stroke in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFetterman has not fully recovered<\/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,\u00a0on Wednesday said he\u2019ll debate\u00a0Republican rival\u00a0Mehmet Oz\u00a0after a Pennsylvania newspaper questioned if he was not fit enough for office. Fetterman has previously said he would not\u00a0take part in a suggested early September debate, citing his ongoing recovery from a stroke in May and [\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-1636378","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\/1636378","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=1636378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636378\/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=1636378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}