BREAKING: John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, says that his stroke recovery “changes everything,” but that he’s fit to serve as senator. More on the exclusive interview:
BRADDOCK, Pa. — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May.
During the interview, Fetterman occasionally stuttered and had trouble finding words. He responded to oral questions after reading captions on a computer screen. “I sometimes will hear things in a way that’s not perfectly clear. So I use captioning so I’m able to see what you’re saying on the captioning,” Fetterman said.
Fetterman, acknowledging the challenges he still faces, added: “But it gets much much better where I take in a lot. But to be precise, I use captioning, so that’s really the maijing — that’s the major challenge. And every now and then I’ll miss a word. Every now and then. Or sometimes I’ll maybe mush two words together. But as long as I have captioning, I’m able to understand exactly what’s being asked.
“I feel like we have been very transparent in a lot of different ways,” Fetterman said. “When our doctor has already given a letter saying that I’m able to serve and to be running. And then I think there’s — you can’t be any more transparent than standing up on a stage with 3,000 people and having a speech without a teleprompter and just being — and putting everything and yourself out there like that. I think that’s as transparent as everyone in Pennsylvania can see.
Instead, he said, he supports a national law that would effectively reinstate the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling that was overruled earlier this year, adding that he would vote to get rid of the Senate filibuster to make it easier for Democrats to enact such a law.
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