The American president and his predecessor come in this disputed state on Saturday to support their respective candidates for the Senate. Democrat John Fetterman, diminished by a recent heart attack, is in the shoulder to his republican opponent, Mehmet Oz.
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What if the mid-term elections were playing a heart attack? Among the handful of balance states that will draw the majority in the Senate, on November 8, Pennsylvania caught attention. The race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz seems very uncertain. It comes out of the ordinary because of its dramatic human dimension. Former mayor of Braddock, near Pittsburgh, before becoming Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Fetterman was the victim of a heart attack in May, a few days before the primaries of his party. Since then, he fights to reconcile the impossible: a high intensity campaign and his convalescence.
Saturday November 5, Joe Biden and Barack Obama will both be in Pennsylvania to help him cross the last meters. In the evening, Donald Trump will hold a meeting in Latrobe, alongside Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano, candidate for the post of governor and ardent promoter of lies on imaginary fraud during the 2020 presidential election. Not sure that the event Or a blessing for the Republican candidate, who tried to appear as a reassuring and conciliatory pretender. But general attention is focused on the health of John Fetterman, even though, according to his doctors, his cognitive capacities are not started.
Now equipped with a pacemaker, he has long stayed back in the campaign, unable to discuss, leaving his digital team flooding the video networks mocking the parachuting of his opponent, a millionaire doctor who made a career on television. The Oz team was very annoyed and helpless, always forced to adorn the blows. In return, an advisor suggested that Mr. Fetterman would have avoided the heart attack if he had “eaten the slightest vegetable in his life”. But, in September, republican pressure intensified about its state of health, its supposed lack of transparency. John Fetterman published a certificate from his doctor assuring that he was able to serve. Above all, he agreed to participate in a television debate on October 25.
polarization of the electorate
It was a shipwreck, but its impact will not necessarily be decisive due to the polarization of the electorate. It was almost painful to observe John Fetterman, behind his desk, look for words as we would look for a switch in the dark. The giant with the American footballer’s build, shaved skull and pepper and salt goat, had put on a tie costume for the occasion, which rarely happens to him. He already wore a few days earlier when, at the foot of the presidential plane, he welcomed, without enthusiasm, Joe Biden, then already came to support him.
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