{"id":1637872,"date":"2022-09-09T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637872"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:51:18","slug":"in-pennsylvania-senate-race-oz-says-fetterman-must-debate-now-so-voters-know-who-their-candidates-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-pennsylvania-senate-race-oz-says-fetterman-must-debate-now-so-voters-know-who-their-candidates-are\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pennsylvania Senate Race, Oz Says Fetterman Must Debate Now So Voters \u2018Know Who Their Candidates Are\u2019"},"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\">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%2Fin-pennsylvania-senate-race-oz-says-fetterman-must-debate-now-so-voters-know-who-their-candidates-are%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=1637872&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>Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate\">Senate<\/a> candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mehmet-oz\">Mehmet Oz<\/a> has challenged Lt. Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-fetterman\">John Fetterman<\/a>, his Democratic opponent, to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-debate\">debate<\/a> in September, but Fetterman has said he needs more time to recover from the stroke he suffered in May and said any debate must be pushed to October.<\/p>\n<p>Oz has said he will not agree to debate in mid-October unless Fetterman also agrees to debate in September. The Republican candidate wants to debate Fetterman before voters begin submitting early mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first debate has to be in September so we can allow voters to know who their candidates are right now,\u201d Oz told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/09\/08\/oz-fetterman-debate-pennsylvania\">Axios<\/a>. \u201cPick one of the debates in the next two, three weeks. So we can get this ball rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s comments came a day after Fetterman told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/09\/07\/fetterman-to-politico-i-will-debate-oz-00055301\">Politico<\/a> that he would agree to one debate with his GOP opponent and that he\u2019s intended to debate him from the start. Fetterman is looking to have the debate \u201csometime in the middle to end of October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman suffered a stroke on May 13 a few hours before he was set to attend a campaign event at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He only returned to the campaign trail in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>In multiple interviews, the Democrat has mentioned that the stroke has affected his speaking and auditory processing, which could end up hurting his debate performance.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s campaign is considering using a closed caption monitor for the potential debate to ensure he doesn\u2019t miss any words.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview with Politico, Fetterman confirmed that some of his hearing has been affected from the stroke. However, the situation is getting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz has challenged Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, his Democratic opponent, to a debate in September, but Fetterman has said he needs more time to recover from the stroke he suffered in May and said any debate must be pushed to October. Oz has said he will not agree to debate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"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-1637872","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\/1637872","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\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637872\/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=1637872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}