Exclusive: U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman pushed back on the framing of a recent interview, calling the controversy “surreal” and “bizarre.”
. “Our reporting did not and should not comment on fitness for office. This is for voters to decide. What we do push for as reporters is transparency.”
Fetterman rejects criticism of his use of a visual aid: “I just could not ever imagine, just as a person, to object to somebody if they need captioning — or if you need to use a wheelchair, or you need to use a cane, or you needed to use glasses, or you needed to — anything! I don’t understand that.”
The Democratic nominee has been upfront about his continued struggle with processing spoken words and speech. “I might miss a word, I may mush two words together,” Fetterman said during a rally speech in Bucks County, Pennsylvania last Sunday.’s interview with Fetterman was conducted over Google Meet, which includes automated closed captioning technology akin to what he used with. “I hope I’m coming across as very lucid and having a normal conversation,” Fetterman says.
Fetterman says he takes no issue with the media’s continued focus on his health. “It’s an understanding that I’m going to be talking about it forever and ever,” he says. “I hope that people can understand that I’ve been very forthright about it and having regular conversations. And I would just hope that somebody isn’t thinking, ‘Well, gee, he has to use captioning, that must mean that there’s something wrong.’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s not.
”There’s no guarantee on what the — if I’ll ever get to be 100% — but I have been able to be functioning and giving an interview with you today or getting up in front of 3,000 people,” he
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