Lack of Candor on Fetterman’s Health Leaves Pennsylvania Voters in the Dark
‘I almost died,’ the Senate candidate has said of his stroke, leaving open the delicate question of what is the extent of his illness, with no one to date offering that answer.

BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania — On May 13, just days before the May party primary here in the Keystone State, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman suffered a stroke while on the campaign trail in Lancaster in his run for his party’s nomination for the United States Senate.
As reporters and supporters noticed his absence, his campaign released a statement saying he had been hospitalized over that weekend after suffering a stroke caused by a clot from his heart during an episode of atrial fibrillation.
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