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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman suffers face injury in fall outside home

An large bald man in front of the US Capitol.
‘If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!’ John Fetterman said in a statement released by his office after his fall on Thursday. Photograph: Allison Robbert/EPA

The Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman was hospitalized on Thursday after a heart condition flare-up caused him to fall on his face outside his home.

According to a statement from his press secretary, the Democrat was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital following the early-morning slip, and doctors determined he had experienced ventricular fibrillation that left him feeling light-headed before he fell and sustained minor facial injuries.

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