{"id":1711182,"date":"2022-10-26T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711182"},"modified":"2022-10-26T07:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:33:31","slug":"allowing-john-fetterman-to-run-for-senate-is-just-abusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/allowing-john-fetterman-to-run-for-senate-is-just-abusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing John Fetterman To Run For Senate Is Just Abusive"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fallowing-john-fetterman-to-run-for-senate-is-just-abusive%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=1711182&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>It was always clear why Democrat Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman resisted participation in a traditional television debate with celebrity and Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1570241181161857024?s=20&#038;t=wWdakY0OaOIgxxpg3Boeew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watch<\/a> the Democrat Senate candidate on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, after early voting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionreturns.pa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">led tens of thousands<\/a> of Pennsylvania residents to cast their ballots already, Fetterman\u2019s presence on the debate stage turned from an apparent act of political courage by a recent stroke survivor into an episode of abusive political malpractice. It was only five months ago that Fetterman suffered a debilitating stroke where \u2014 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/03\/fetterman-heart-condition-almost-died-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his words<\/a> \u2014 he, \u201calmost died.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The lieutenant governor opened the debate with, \u201cHi, goodnight everybody,\u201d which was an apt preview of his next 60 minutes on stage. <\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, of course, had no good options. He could have either refused a debate with Oz altogether, giving ammo to skeptics who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/its-not-ableist-to-wonder-if-fetterman-can-do-his-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use his refusal<\/a> to offer press interviews without closed captioning as evidence that he is unfit for a six-year Senate term. Or he could have engaged with Oz in a one-on-one debate while aiming to minimize the lingering side effects of his recovery before the cameras. Fetterman and his campaign chose the latter, which ultimately turned out to be a disaster. The better option for Fetterman, his family, Pennsylvania voters, and the Democratic Party would have been for him to stay home and let someone else run a Senate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat Senate candidate struggled to string together coherent sentences throughout the entire night, which only got worse as the hour-long debate progressed \u2014 even with closed captioning at his request. When asked about his prior opposition to fracking and outright calls to ban it, Fetterman became a deer in the headlights. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do want to clarify something,\u201d said the debate moderator directing her question at Fetterman. \u201cYou\u2019re saying tonight that you support fracking, that you\u2019ve always supported fracking, but there is that 2018 interview that you said, \u2018I don\u2019t support fracking at all,\u2019 so how do you square the two?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence took over the studio as Fetterman froze. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do support fracking,\u201d Fetterman said. \u201cI don\u2019t, I don\u2019t, I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman didn\u2019t just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Jm3zKxZ3IA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell<\/a> a left-wing YouTuber, \u201cI don\u2019t support fracking at all, and I never have.\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/706671624360071168?s=20&#038;t=8htDFDVvrz21BJ8l3yv4Mg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed <\/a>a moratorium on fracking in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Any policy discussion during the debate, however, was distracted by Fetterman\u2019s visibly labored endeavor even to comprehend what was happening on stage, which is half the job of a United States senator. His response to a question about his doctor clearing him as fit to serve failed to inspire a lot of confidence after half an hour of rambling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy doctoral believes that I\u2019m fit to be serving, and that\u2019s what I believe is where I\u2019m standing,\u201d Fetterman said. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mod: &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you released your medical records?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman: &#8220;My doctors believe I am ready to be served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mod: &#8220;Why won&#8217;t you release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only five months ago that Fetterman suffered a debilitating stroke where he &#8212; in his words &#8212; &#8216;almost died.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1711185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711182","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}