Oprah Winfrey also takes sides, giving the endorsement to the Democrat Fetterman (who suffered a stroke in the spring). But the Republican Mehmet Oz, the doctor of America, has the advantage
Eventually Oprah had to line up. She was the one who brought Mehmet Oz, the Doctor of America (and coined the definition) to television glory, inviting him 55 times on his show and sponsoring one all for him, The Dr. Oz Showwhere one of the nation’s brightest heart surgeons gained fame by selling relaxing drinks and potentially unhealthy slimming treatments, inviting Michelle Obama as a guest to talk about healthy eating for children but also mediums who speak to the dead, admired by American mothers and condemned by the scientific community. Now, however, Oz the Republican candidate who risks defeating the gentle Democrat giant John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May while on his way to an election event with his wife Gisele, but suffering from an even more serious problem, in the eyes of many. here in southwestern Pennsylvania: being too progressive.
one of the most followed and tightest races of these elections of midterm. A challenge that could decide if control of the Senate passes to the president’s rival party, with paralyzing effects on its legislative program, its appointments as magistrates and, combined with the probable victory of the Republicans in the House, with possible repercussions on aid in Ukraine. A great responsibility.
So, after a courtship of months, five days after the vote on November 8, even though Oz had warned her to stay out (I don’t want my friends to get hurt), the lady of the American TV gave the endorsement to Fetterman: If I lived in Pennsylvania I would have voted for him by now, for many reasons. happened at a virtual event like many of Fetterman’s activities after a late-October televised debate against Oz in which he was unable to articulate his thoughts clearly, to the point of sometimes saying the opposite of what he meant. With 4 out of 10 voters worried according to a poll that, if elected a senator, he would not be able to carry out the post, his campaign sought to limit appearances and interviews.
Fetterman in rehab, in rehabilitationDemocratic Senator in the local legislature, Jay Costa, tells us. What a stress for the Fettermans. Last Wednesday, in downtown Pittsburgh, John was eloquent, but there were no screens to read on like in the TV debate or people talking at the same time as him. But sadly, the Fettermans pay the price of not attacking their rival, because it’s not in their vocabulary, Guy Rocco, a Free Store volunteer, defends him. The free shop is a colorful shack that stands in a parking lot, surrounded by hangers full of clothes donated to the needy in the suburb of Braddock, devastated by the decline of the steel industry.
The idea of Gisele Barreto Fetterman, John’s wife, born in Brazil and attacked by Oz, the son of Turkish immigrants, because she illegally arrived at the age of 7. Rocco, 82, whose family came from the province of Caserta carrying a statue of San Simeone still used in processions in East Pittsburgh, came here five years ago to donate, and has never left: I saw that angel – he explains referring to Gisele – and I said: “O my God Mother Teresa reincarnated”. John Fetterman hasn’t left either: he was mayor of Braddock for 13 years, working through a non-profit organization in which he paid his family’s money, as the city council did not listen to him; elected deputy governor of Pennsylvania, he did not move into his proper mansion, preferring to use the pool to teach poor children to swim. There are those who criticize the ex-mayor’s too-hipster approach: the opening of a trendy restaurant that went bankrupt, the closing of a nightclub that was a meeting place. But one thing counts most of all, in the eyes of Mrs. Phyllis Brown alias Felicia Bruno (in the 60s she lived in Naples with her military husband): They remain in Braddock. They live in a former car dealership converted into a loft overlooking a steel mill and John had his cap tattooed on one arm and the death dates of those poor boys killed during his tenure, notes the 83-year-old African-American lady, a establishment of the neighborhood.
The Democrats send their best speaker today, Barack Obama, to Pittsburgh and then together with Biden in Philadelphia, to the rescue of Fetterman. Friends insist the aspiring senator’s language difficulties are temporary (and it is not really clear whether his health worries voters more than the fact that his rival has lived for decades in New Jersey and not here in Pennsylvania), but to his progressivism. there is no cure. In Pittsburgh, his positions on criminal justice reform are an obstacle: too progressive. And attention to climate change is a problem for the working class concerned about the impact on jobs. Oz capitalized on this, Costa notes. But he doesn’t say the last word: do better in the suburbs of Philadelphia, in the Northeast and among rural Democrats. While Oz repositioned himself in the center after winning the primary with Trump’s endorsement, Fetterman stayed true to his line. Yet two very different personalities closed the election campaign with the same message: politicians cannot be trusted, we are not.
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