Pennsylvania Voters Have No Good Options
A fluke medical crisis has thrown one of the most consequential elections into disarray—with serious consequences for the entire country.
No one knows quite how the stroke that Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman suffered in May might affect his performance as a U.S. senator if he wins an election next month. But his halting, sometimes painful performance last night in the sole debate in his race against Republican Mehmet Oz showed that he’s not outwardly the candidate who won the Democratic nomination earlier this year.
The answers here are simply unavailable. His campaign insists that he is cognitively healthy but struggles with processing speech aurally and orally, a judgment no ordinary voter would be able to make from watching the debate alone. (As Fetterman recovers, he has sometimes performed better on
