The morning after Lt. Gov. John Fetterman won Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Alberta Wilkes was in a radiant mood as she waited for a bus to the post office to buy money orders for bills. “I love it,” Wilkes, 71, a retired hospital cook, said Wednesday. “John overcame a lot of obstacles.” A resident of the … Read more
John Fetterman was projected to defeat Republican celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in the race for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, in what cycle’s most expensive and most closely watched midterm contest. NBC News and Fox News projected that Fetterman would win the race. His victory flips a Senate seat to Democrats, boosting their chances … Read more
John Fetterman’s U.S. Senate campaign joined Democratic groups on Monday in suing to override a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision barring state election officials from counting absentee and mail-in ballots that lack a correct date on the outer envelope, a technicality with potentially huge implications for the battleground’s razor-close midterm races. Filed in federal court on … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Former President Barack Obama teamed up with President Joe Biden to warn of the consequences of Republican gains in midterm elections three days from now that are shaping up as potentially grim for Democrats. Author of the article: Bloomberg News Akayla Gardner and Jordan Fabian Article content (Bloomberg) — Former … Read more
Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman released a video Friday highlighting the refusal of his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, to say whether he would vote to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour. During Tuesday night’s televised debate between the two candidates, Oz was asked three times if he supports lifting … Read more
Democratic hopes of retaining control of the US Senate were dealt a blow on Tuesday after John Fetterman, the party’s nominee in Pennsylvania who suffered a stroke earlier this year, struggled to speak clearly during a prime time debate and at times appeared to find it difficult to respond to questions. The Pennsylvania race, where … Read more
Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor John Fetterman and TV personality Mehmet Oz met for their only pre-election debate, in what was perhaps the most closely watched match ups of all U.S. Senate candidates this midterm cycle. As high as the stakes were, as viewers were reminded that their race could determine who controls the upper chamber, the … Read more
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s editorial board on Sunday not only endorsed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman but also argued that his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is “wholly unprepared” for the role. The newspaper—founded nearly two centuries ago—made the move less than a month before the midterm elections. Early voting in Pennsylvania is done by … Read more
After an interview showed John Fetterman using a closed captioning device to read questions, the Democrat, who is running for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat, tackled the subject that has been front and center on the campaign trail — his health. “The elephant in the room for a lot of folks is that I had a … Read more
Fetterman said in a statement Wednesday that he always intended to debate Oz and that the hold-up has “only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of my stroke, the auditory processing, and we’re going to be able to work that out.” Though he declined to provide specifics over where and when he … Read more