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The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington in New York

Pundits divided over Fetterman’s performance in key Senate debate

John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz during the debate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 25 October.
John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz during the debate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 25 October. Photograph: Greg Nash/EPA

As the dust settled over Tuesday night’s sole televised debate in the crucial US Senate race in Pennsylvania, pundits were starkly divided over the impact of the Democrat John Fetterman’s struggles with speech in his recovery from a stroke.

The Pennsylvania lieutenant governor raised the issue of his auditory processing disorder, which makes it difficult for him to understand certain spoken words, in his opening remarks in the debate with his Republican rival, the former TV doctor Mehmet Oz.

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