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Don Lemon CNN: John Fetterman addresses debate performance, fracking disconnect in CNN interview
(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election2022/2022/11/01/senate-race-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-cnn-interview-pennsylvania-senate/stories/202211010090
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman anticipated that his debate against Republican Mehmet Oz "wasn't going to be easy" following a stroke earlier this year but "thought it was important that I show up," he told CNN's Don Lemon in an interview that aired Tuesday [Nov.1] on "CNN This Morning."
Mr. Fetterman's first and only debate against Mr. Oz intensified the focus on the Democrat's recovery from the near-fatal stroke he suffered in May. Fetterman's delivery during the contest was at times halting and repetitive, with the candidate dropping words during answers and occasionally losing his train of thought. The interview with CNN, like during the debate, was conducted with closed captioning technology.
"I just always understood that it wasn't going to be easy. I am five months into recovery from that, but I thought it was important that I show up and I did it. And at the end of the day, we did, I think, make some important points." Fetterman said, noting that the debate also gave the Democratic campaign the opportunity to highlight Mr. Oz saying "local political leaders" should be involved with women and their doctors when making decisions about abortion.
Mr. Fetterman added that he and his doctors believe he is going to "continue to get and feel better and better." Mr. Fetterman's race against Mr. Oz represents Democrats’ best chance to flip a Senate seat in 2022. Polls have shown the Democrat with a narrow lead, including a survey from the New York Times and Siena College released on Monday that found Mr. Fetterman with 49% support to Mr. Oz's 44%, narrowly outside the survey's error margin.
Mr. Fetterman's first and only debate against Mr. Oz intensified the focus on the Democrat's recovery from the near-fatal stroke he suffered in May. Fetterman's delivery during the contest was at times halting and repetitive, with the candidate dropping words during answers and occasionally losing his train of thought. The interview with CNN, like during the debate, was conducted with closed captioning technology.
"I just always understood that it wasn't going to be easy. I am five months into recovery from that, but I thought it was important that I show up and I did it. And at the end of the day, we did, I think, make some important points." Fetterman said, noting that the debate also gave the Democratic campaign the opportunity to highlight Mr. Oz saying "local political leaders" should be involved with women and their doctors when making decisions about abortion.
Mr. Fetterman added that he and his doctors believe he is going to "continue to get and feel better and better." Mr. Fetterman's race against Mr. Oz represents Democrats’ best chance to flip a Senate seat in 2022. Polls have shown the Democrat with a narrow lead, including a survey from the New York Times and Siena College released on Monday that found Mr. Fetterman with 49% support to Mr. Oz's 44%, narrowly outside the survey's error margin.
- more at link, including video clip of Don Lemon's interview with Fetterman -
I'm not able to post the video clip of the interview, so please click on link above to view on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website.
