Posted on 10/28/2022 9:06:04 AM PDT by lightman
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) tried to be a good soldier and mount a good defense against John Fetterman’s disastrous debate against Dr. Mehmet Oz. Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, failed miserably against his Republican opponent, Oz, on Tuesday night, stumbling his way through the one-hour event that most knew was an incoming trainwreck. Both men are running to fill the vacancy left by outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. Fetterman suffered a severe stroke last spring but insists he’s healthy enough, citing a doctor’s note attesting to his well-being. The letter was written by a medical professional and one of Fetterman’s campaign donors.
Casey and the liberal media did their best to try and portray Fetterman’s catastrophic debate performance as that of an elite politician. They said the lieutenant governor articulated his points with precision and clarity. No one thought that even Democratic operatives who are privately fretting, the debate may have cost Fetterman the election. Some were blunter in their assessment of Tuesday night’s debacle, saying that this debate should have never been agreed to and that those who signed off on it should be fired and barred from politics. Regardless, the event has induced pure panic among Democrats, who once saw this as one of their safest races this year (via Fox News):
Democrats are privately "panicking" over Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman's debate performance Tuesday night and expressing regret over his decision to debate Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz, according to NBC.
The Democrat's lingering health problems due to a stroke he suffered in May resulted in a debate performance that some said was "painful to watch." Some Democrats felt Fetterman hadn't been transparent about the degree of his speaking difficulties and criticized his campaign for agreeing to the one and only debate.
"[F]ellow Democrats are second-guessing his decision to appear on stage five months after a stroke — and some question whether he should have remained on the ballot at all," the NBC article began.
Chris Kofinis, a veteran Democratic campaign strategist, put it bluntly to NBC: "He should not have debated. Anyone on his team who agreed to a debate should be fired, or never work again, because that debate may have tanked his campaign."
Several Democrats were apparently "shocked" by the extent of Fetterman's speaking difficulties during the debate, leaving some Democrats to question why he was still running.
One senior Senate Democratic aide told NBC they found Fetterman's performance "startling."
"I really question the judgment that he continued with this race," the person said.
"Folks are pretty much freaking out on the Dem side," Khari Mosley, a Pittsburgh-based Democratic consultant and grassroots activist added.
To his credit, Oz turned this around when things looked like this could be one of the most significant dumpster fires of the cycle. Dr. Oz, a television personality, certainly wasn’t the first pick for Pennsylvania Republicans, but he revamped his operation and found a message—public safety—that resonated with voters, especially those in the suburbs. It also helped that Fetterman has a notoriously weak record on law and order issues, wanting to abolish life sentences for murderers and emptying one-third of all state prisons.
Fetterman’s once stout double-digit lead this summer has been erased, and this debate which once again showed voters that he’s not healthy enough to be a US Senator might have been the death knell.
LoL........
The doctor in question is not his primary doctor and is a contributor to his campaign.
BINGO!!!! THREAD WINNER. That’s exactly the message. Do-nothing to elect a Dem even one who is visibly a mental defective. Just don’t let the public see it.
The only news here is that the Media managed to find Sen. Bob Casey.
The troubling thing about this whole debacle is the timing of the debate. Another thread said that 65% of the ballots had already been cast before the debate even occurred. That is another clue that all of the Rats thought this would be a total cluster&*^%*^&%$.
I bet some of those 65% wish they would have waited to vote BUT if they weren’t willing to wait after the debate, their minds were made up I suppose.
Same. No tears here either. They knew, they lied and lied, and tried to cover it up.
People will vote to hire him as their Senator, yet they wouldn’t hire him to mow their yards.
He could actually still win in the Commonbeggary of Pennsylvania. That is how far the state is gone.
P
Agreed. It was a rock and a hard place decision. In retrospect the wrong choice was made not to try to just hit it out, but I think a reasonable advisor could have gone the other way. Anyone who told Hobbs to hold the line is guilty of malpractice, however. I think her stonewalling has and is going to cost her dearly
Poor Fetterman. If he dies, we’ll never know if it was the stroke or he got Wellstoned.
Democrats don't want to actually face the voters, they just want to steal their votes.
-PJ
No I think OZ has a shot. There is a cheat limit but in Pa it’s damn high. Trump won by several hundred thousand there
Biden should pick him for VP his next failed term.
Go out in a blaze of Idiocracy!
“We screwed up by letting the public see our candidate for Senate as he really is.” they are really saying. The secret to electoral success is hiding the truth.
I think they will. If the polling is correct then it's still within the margin of fraud. And that always means "the dem wins"
Exactly, I won’t be surprised if he still wins.
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