Health questions, verbal slips loom over John Fetterman in tightening Pa. Senate race
Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman survived a stroke in May, but his health remains a central issue in his bid to edge out Republican foe Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, with verbal stumbles raising questions about his fitness.
Mr. Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, said he has a fixable “auditory processing” issue, but recent polling shows the race tightening alongside misfires on the stump.
“The Eagles are so Much Better — than the Eagles!” Mr. Fetterman said at an event last month.
In another instance, Mr. Fetterman said he is “doing fantastic” and “not kicking balls in the authority or anything,” swapping words in a phrase that Mr. Oz used to criticize his Democrat...