PITTSBURGH — In what may serve as his most straightforward attempt yet to combat claims that he’s hiding from voters, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, told Politico on Wednesday that he’ll “absolutely” debate Republican Mehmet Oz.
Fetterman, who is continuing to recover from a stroke he suffered in May, told the outlet in an exclusive interview that he’s committing to one debate with Oz — on a major TV station “sometime in the middle to end of October” — and is still discussing accommodations for his auditory processing problems.
That could include a closed captioning monitor, he said, so he doesn’t miss any words. In an interview with the Post-Gazette in July, he said he struggles with his hearing sometimes and may “miss a word” or “slur two together,” but he said it doesn’t happen often and that he was working with a speech therapist.
