John Fetterman, Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate, suffers stroke

Lieutenant governor John Fetterman and the state’s Democratic Senate candidate, at a meet-and-greet at the Weyerbacher Brewing Company in Easton, Pennsylvania, on 1 May. Photograph: Hannah Beier/Reuters

John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and frontrunner in the state’s Democratic US Senate primary, suffered a stroke Friday, and is recovering, he said in a statement.

“On Friday, I wasn’t feeling well, so I went to the hospital to get checked out. I didn’t want to go – I didn’t think I had to – but Gisele insisted, and as usual, she was right,” Fetterman said in a statement posted to Twitter, referring to his wife. “I hadn’t been feeling well, but was so focused on the campaign that I ignored the signs and just kept going.”