As soon as Lt. Gov. John Fetterman accepted a debate invitation for Oct. 25, Mehmet Oz said their matchup would fall too late in the cycle — two weeks before Election Day — given people could start voting by mail as early as late September. He criticized Fetterman for declining earlier debates.
“John Fetterman has only agreed to one debate on October 25, which would take place after hundreds of thousands of absentee and mail-in voters begin casting their ballots,” Oz’s campaign said in a statement this week.
Fetterman’s campaign points to debates in years past that similarly fell about two weeks before the election, though in those contests there were two debates apiece in October.
