John Fetterman prevails in Pennsylvania Senate race despite the media's best efforts

Daily Kos Staff

Tuesday November 08, 2022 · 9:54 PM PST

2022/11/08 · 21:54

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 24: Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, D-Pa., greets supporters during a campaign rally at the Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center in Philadelphia Pa., on Saturday, September 24, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

“I got knocked down but I got back up,” Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman tweeted last month, referring to the stroke that took him off the campaign trail for months. Even as Fetterman fought his way back, including doing interviews with the help of closed captioning to help him adapt to a temporary auditory processing disorder, the media worked on painting him as unqualified while giving Oz a pass on things like having hundreds of dogs killed for medical research and promoting quack medicines.

Now Fetterman has gotten all the way back up, defeating Republican Mehmet Oz in the race for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. This is a big pickup for Democrats in the fight to retain control of the Senate.

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John Fetterman prevails in Pennsylvania Senate race despite the media's best efforts

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