The Painful Story of How John Fetterman Arrived at His Debate Humiliation

Many in the press have described Trump supporters as being part of a cult. Yet nothing is more cultish than to proclaim that nothing is wrong when clearly everything is wrong.

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Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, at Pittsburgh, October 26, 2022. AP/Gene J. Puskar

EXPORT, Pennsylvania — For the first time in this election cycle, most of the people sitting around the restaurant bar casually watching the debate saw the depth of the effects of the stroke Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman suffered in May when he began the debate Tuesday evening with a “good night” as his opening greeting.

It only got worse from there. For 60 painful minutes, the York native and Harvard graduate, who had made his home in Western Pennsylvania for the last 20 years, struggled vividly with cognitive issues in handling the simplest of questions tossed his way during the debate.

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