GOP takes indirect aim at Fetterman's health in Pennsylvania Senate race
The well-wishing is over. Now Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s stroke is officially a campaign issue in the swing state’s U.S. Senate race.
The well-wishing is over. Now Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s stroke is officially a campaign issue in the swing state’s U.S. Senate race.
But rather than directly criticize Fetterman over his health, Republicans are taking a different approach: bashing the Democrat for not being more transparent about the stroke that hospitalized him four days before he handily won the May 17 primary.
Gisele Fetterman takes over on the trail in key Senate race after husband’s strokeJune 9, 202201:43The Fetterman campaign waited two days to disclose his hospitalization, issued a statement that confused cardiologists and later acknowledged that he had a previously undisclosed heart condition that led doctors to install a pacemaker with a defibrillator last month. He was released from the hospital several days after the election.
On Thursday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, or NRSC, released a web ad that featured news coverage of pundits and reporters discussing the Fetterman campaign’s evolving explanations of his health and hospitalization, asking, “Does John Fetterman Have a Problem Telling the Truth?”
The ad, from the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, was a marked departure from recent comments by Fetterman’s opponent, celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz, who wished him well when he was first hospitalized.
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