Democrat John Fetterman is committing to at least one debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate following mounting pressure.
Oz has already committed to five debates and had blasted Fetterman for his refusal to commit to a single one up until Wednesday. The pair would have squared off Tuesday night in a KDKA debate had Fetterman accepted the invitation, but he declined to attend. Oz’s teamseveral snarky concessions to Fetterman’s camp for the unrealized September 6 matchup and offered to “pay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.
Fetterman framed the concessions as mocking “a stroke survivor” and said he “chose not to participate in this farce,” as Fox NewsDespite the narrative that Fetterman aimed to create that would paint Oz as insensitive, he could not escape the pressure from others to debate, including from Sen. Pat Toomey , whose seat he is vying for.
“He’s either not as well as he claims to be, or he’s afraid to be called out for the radical policies he supports. It’s one or the other,” Toomey explained, seeminglyAccompanying Toomey’s comments on Tuesday were a pair of op-eds from local and national media that called for Fetterman to accept a debate challenge. TheThe Republican’s antics have given Mr. Fetterman a plausible out: He won’t share the stage with someone who has behaved so shamefully. But that won’t cut it.
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