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The highly anticipated statement successful the Pennsylvania's Senate race was held Tuesday nighttime -- the lone clip this autumn that Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman shared a stage, arsenic they each vie for a spot that could extremity the balance successful Congress' evenly divided apical chamber.
Considerable attraction successful the debate, hosted by Nexstar, was connected Fetterman's health: The lieutenant politician suffered a changeable successful May that sidelined him for 3 months and near him with lingering symptoms, including halting speech.
Fetterman had monitors connected signifier to transcribe words successful existent clip and acknowledged aboriginal connected successful the hr that helium would beryllium occasionally stumbling implicit and confusing his words. He has said helium is moving with a code therapist and has immoderate auditory processing issues with spoken language, which neurologists accidental is not uncommon for changeable survivors.
Addressing his fittingness for office, Fetterman pointed to a missive from his doc that helium was acceptable for "full duty" and described his changeable arsenic a situation similar galore different radical had faced and overcome.
"My run is each astir warring for anyone successful Pennsylvania that ever got knocked down, that had to get backmost up again. I'm besides warring for immoderate forgotten communities each crossed Pennsylvania that ever got knocked down," helium said successful his closing message.
Oz, a doc and fashionable TV host, successful his closing connection pitched voters that helium would bring "balance" to Washington.
"I'm a surgeon, not a politician. We instrumentality large problems, we absorption connected them and we hole them, and we bash it by uniting -- by coming unneurotic -- not dividing. And by doing that, we get ahead," helium said.
During the debate, helium and Fetterman sparred connected termination access, nationalist information and crime, ostentation and the minimum wage and much -- and which of the 2 was moving the much sincere campaign.
Members of the media hole to screen the Pennsylvania Senate statement betwixt Democratic campaigner John Fetterman and Republican campaigner Mehmet Oz successful Harrisburg, Penn., Oct. 25, 2022.
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Fetterman accused Oz of often lying, some connected the statement signifier and successful his TV career, calling it the "Oz rule." Oz aboriginal pushed backmost that 1 of Fetterman's ads against him had been pulled for being "dishonest" portion his run had nary specified penalty.
Oz said that Fetterman's attacks connected him, connected his views connected termination restrictions and whether oregon not to chopped Social Security and Medicare (which Oz said helium opposed), amounted to "fear-mongering."
Fetterman formed Oz arsenic out-of-town and out-of-touch, repeatedly invoking Oz's wealthiness and galore properties and deficiency of roots successful the state. "I judge it's astir serving Pennsylvania, not astir utilizing Pennsylvania for their ain interests," helium said.
Oz returned to a cardinal taxable arsenic well: that Fetterman was a "radical" portion helium was seeking solutions that served the full state. He pressed Fetterman connected Fetterman's grounds connected the Pennsylvania parole board, calling Fetterman anemic connected transgression and nationalist safety. And helium said that Fetterman would bash incorrect by the vigor industry.
Fetterman insisted helium supported fracking -- contradicting what helium said successful 2018, the moderators noted -- and that arsenic a politician of Braddock, Pennsylvania, helium had successfully worked to curb weapon unit and had a way grounds of addressing nationalist information issues.
On abortion, Fetterman said helium wanted to revive and codify into instrumentality the nationwide termination guidelines nether Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court struck down this summer.
This operation of record photos shows Democratic Senate candidate, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, left, and Republican Senate campaigner Dr. Mehmet Oz successful 2022 photos.
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Oz said helium wouldn't enactment a national termination prohibition -- which immoderate different Republicans person called for. He has described himself arsenic "pro-life" and supports restrictions termination with a fewer exceptions, saying that by opposition Fetterman supported tax-subsidized termination adjacent into the last trimester.
On termination and different issues, helium described Fetterman arsenic extreme.
Fetterman insisted helium backed Roe's guidelines, nary much and nary less, and should beryllium the campaigner chosen by voters who enactment a woman's idiosyncratic prime portion Oz would enactment to restrict abortion.
Oz rebutted Fetterman, who sought to statement him arsenic really much right-wing connected termination than helium was saying connected stage: Fetterman chopped into Oz's clip to nexus Oz to gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano. Oz said Fetterman was trying to "scare" women.
Elsewhere, Fetterman said helium supported a instrumentality to rise the authorities minimum wage to $15 an hour, much than treble its existent rate. Oz said helium wanted the minimum wage adjacent higher than that but driven by marketplace forces, not a law, via a program to "unleash" the state's vigor companies.
Polls person narrowed considerably, with FiveThirtyEight's average present showing Fetterman up by little than 3 points, down from astir 11 points six weeks ago.
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