The Fetterman-Oz Debate Was a Rorschach Test
The Democratic nominee for Senate has no choice but to bet on Pennsylvania voters identifying with his health struggles instead of viewing them as disqualifying.
Why did John Fetterman’s team agree to tonight’s debate? Because declining it likely seemed a worse option. For all of Mehmet Oz’s carpetbaggery, medical quackery, and general charlatanism, he got that much right near the end of the first and only Pennsylvania debate for U.S. Senate: Voters really do want to see both candidates face off.
Fetterman used to talk one way, he had a stroke, and now he talks another way. In certain post-stroke interviews, with the help of captions and in the absence of a ticking clock, he has given strong
