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Pennsylvania Democrats try to do damage control after shaky Fetterman debate
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | October 26, 2022 | By Jarrett Renshaw

Posted on 10/26/2022 3:03:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

HARRISBURG, Penn. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Democrats tried to do damage control on John Fetterman's U.S. Senate campaign on Wednesday, the morning after a shaky debate performance against Republican TV doctor Mehmet Oz that showed the struggle Fetterman faces in recovering from a May stroke.

“I don’t know anyone, even the most staunch Fetterman supporters, who think that went well last night," a senior Pennsylvania Democrat told Reuters.

Democrats interviewed said the Fetterman campaign is surely doing quick polls to gauge how to repair any damage caused by the performance. Some took hope in how many voters had cast ballots before the debate -- some 685,000, more than two-thirds of them Democrats, according to the U.S. Elections Project.

Fetterman's words on Tuesday night were frequently halting, and he often repeated phrases multiple times. Several Democrats said that his performance, while courageous, raised fresh concerns about his health.

Fetterman's campaign tried to change the subject, saying it would launch new TV ads highlighting Oz's debate comment that a abortion is a decision to be made by "a woman, her doctor and local political leaders."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: election2022; senate
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To: for-q-clinton

“Hi! Goodnight everybody.”

The debate was over; right there.


21 posted on 10/26/2022 3:20:35 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: for-q-clinton

>When he stars the debate by saying goodnight...you know it’s over for him. LOL

He should have stopped there.


22 posted on 10/26/2022 3:21:31 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: Joe 6-pack

“Even Reuters/Yahoo is having trouble spinning Fetid man’s implosion.”

Only because most Democrats have already voted.


23 posted on 10/26/2022 3:21:36 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

After last nights debate it’s clear to me now what’s next for the Democrats. Forget Biden....FETTERMAN 2024!


24 posted on 10/26/2022 3:22:22 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: JudyinCanada

That was my first thought, too. “Shaky”?! The dude’s a total disaster.


25 posted on 10/26/2022 3:27:29 PM PDT by Qui is (Tagline deleted because the moderator is delicate snowflake and suffers from delusions of grandeur.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They hid biden in the basement for the whole campaign, they should have let the lump debate


26 posted on 10/26/2022 3:28:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: hardspunned

And they said today that they were going to give the finger to the SCOTUS and defy them by counting improper ballots which don’t comply with the legal requirements to be dated. They are going to steal this election and they are going to do it right out in the open. The law won’t come after them and if anyone says anything they will get swatted by federal or state law enforcement.


27 posted on 10/26/2022 3:31:05 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction." - Harry Truman)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some took hope in how many voters had cast ballots before the debate

Duh! Why do you think his campaign picked a late October day to begin with??

Still, the hardcore Dims vote early traditionally. It is the independents and Republican turnout that matters now.

28 posted on 10/26/2022 3:32:10 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: for-q-clinton

Of COURSE I saw it . . . I don’t spit coffee willy nilly . . . after mixing the perfect real cream and sugar combination, that stuff is more valuable than platinum.


29 posted on 10/26/2022 3:33:13 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think he wrote a book, “To Serve Mankind” It was in some alien language.


30 posted on 10/26/2022 3:33:21 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: pfflier
Still, the hardcore Dims vote early traditionally. It is the independents and Republican turnout that matters now.

Trump had record turnout in PA in 2020. Just saying.

31 posted on 10/26/2022 3:34:37 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

His performance was “courageous”?


32 posted on 10/26/2022 3:36:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“If Fetterman was a car it wouldn’t run, you’d have to leave it in the driveway”

The wheels would be off, and it would be up on blocks, permanently.


33 posted on 10/26/2022 3:39:22 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is this better or worse than Caligula's horse?


34 posted on 10/26/2022 3:52:11 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: plain talk

“685,000, more than two-thirds of them Democrats, according to the U.S. Elections Project.”

Democrats vote for the (D), not the issue. The target here is the independent vote. The fact the dems have voted early isn’t a surprise. Demfilth would vote for Charles Manson if he were alive and had a (D) after his name. The dems wouldn’t have been swayed by that debacle last night.


35 posted on 10/26/2022 4:01:42 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Slava Ukraini!)
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To: knarf

LOL. Now I spit my green tea and vodka.


36 posted on 10/26/2022 4:02:42 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Covers:

Mule Skinner Blues The Fenderman

Shakin’ All Over The Fetterman


37 posted on 10/26/2022 4:03:13 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time: The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is it with these democrats politicians clinging like this? Can’t they let go and at least let another Democrat run? And what about their voting Democrat enabler helping them cling to nonsense? The intellectual dishonesty and mental corruption is staggering.


38 posted on 10/26/2022 4:05:49 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
”I don’t know anyone, even the most staunch Fetterman supporters, who think that went well last night," a senior Pennsylvania Democrat told Reuters.

Apparently this senior Pennsylvania Democrat hasn’t spoken to his pals at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

39 posted on 10/26/2022 4:06:46 PM PDT by Freedumb
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

40 posted on 10/26/2022 4:17:24 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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