{"id":1731126,"date":"2022-11-09T02:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731126"},"modified":"2022-11-09T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:03:22","slug":"stroke-of-genius-fetterman-defeats-oz-in-pennsylvania-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stroke-of-genius-fetterman-defeats-oz-in-pennsylvania-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke of Genius: Fetterman Defeats Oz In Pennsylvania Senate Race"},"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\">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%2Fstroke-of-genius-fetterman-defeats-oz-in-pennsylvania-senate-race%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=1731126&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 class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democrat suffered cognitive impairments after near-fatal stroke<\/p>\n<p>    John Fetterman takes a selfie. (Photo by Mark Makela\/Getty Images)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 9, 2022 1:51 am  <\/p>\n<p>Democrat John Fetterman narrowly defeated Republican challenger Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania&#8217;s hotly-contested Senate race, flipping a seat held by the outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey into Democratic hands.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman led Oz by just over 1 percentage point with 89 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning. His victory comes after his campaign was derailed in May, when the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor suffered a stroke that kept him off the campaign trail and left him dependent on a teleprompter to process words.<\/p>\n<p>Those limitations were on display when Fetterman addressed the crowd gathered at his victory party in Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning. Fetterman thanked his wife, Gisele, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giselefetterman\/status\/1059985385122660352?s=20&#038;t=L--Kb_6gtobn-6_ioDJKaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigrated to the United States illegally<\/a>, for saving his life by recognizing the signs of his near-fatal stroke while &#8220;walking out of a Sheetz bathroom&#8221; just six months ago. The race centered on the issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/birds-of-a-feather-fetterman-touts-endorsement-from-ex-cop-sued-for-accosting-innocent-black-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-abortion-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>, and the economy, with Oz working to portray Fetterman as a radical who had, in his capacity serving on Pennsylvania&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-taps-friend-of-black-panther-cop-killer-for-board-of-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">board of pardons<\/a>, worked to put hardened criminals back on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s health status was, as he has said, the campaign\u2019s &#8220;elephant in the room.&#8221; He was slow to return to the campaign trail following the May 13 stroke and struggled to speak fluidly, most vividly during his first and only debate with Oz on Oct. 25. Fetterman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/fetterman-refuses-to-release-medical-records-in-rambling-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened the debate<\/a> with &#8220;Hello, goodnight everybody,&#8221; struggled to explain his position on hot-button issues like fracking and abortion. He also refused to release detailed medical records, saying that he had provided &#8220;transparency&#8221; about his condition by merely showing up for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Polls taken after the debate suggested Fetterman\u2019s performance could be an inflection point in the campaign. One survey conducted the day after the debate <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/fetterman-fades-in-post-debate-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed<\/a> Oz leading Fetterman for the first time. Undecided voters in the survey said they were leaning towards Oz by a 64-36 margin.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Fetterman placed heavy bets on the abortion issue, riding a wave of Democratic momentum following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn <em>Roe<\/em> v.<em> Wade<\/em>. He seized on Oz\u2019s statement in their debate that the decision about abortions should be made between &#8220;a woman, her doctor, and local leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat John Fetterman narrowly defeated Republican challenger Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania&#8217;s hotly-contested Senate race, flipping a seat held by the outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey into Democratic hands. Fetterman led Oz by just over 1 percentage point with 89 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning. His victory comes after his campaign was derailed in [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Stroke of Genius: Fetterman Defeats Oz In Pennsylvania Senate Race appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1731129,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1731126","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=1731126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}