The reviews for tonight’s debate are in and they are not good for Fetterman.
Certainly everyone saw him struggle to answer questions and his health issues were the focus of the after-debate analysis.
First up, Leland Vittert with NEWSNATION:
OOF:
"We said this would be unlike any debate you have ever seen, and we perhaps understated just how different this would be. Clearly, the biggest issue was John Fetterman's health and his ability both to comprehend speech and then to speak coherently on the issues of the day." pic.twitter.com/s6PqB7PQNo
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 26, 2022
NEWSNATION: "John Fetterman throughout the hour seemed to lose steam and his answers became more incoherent the longer the debate went on." #PASen pic.twitter.com/EzB0arjDwq
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 26, 2022
Then comes the former CNN host Chris Cuomo, who was certainly more blunt than he would have been on CNN:
CHRIS CUOMO on tonight's #PASen debate: "Voters, I think, saw things that will definitely change the state of this race."
"Fetterman struggled … I don't think his preparation was great." pic.twitter.com/Hy58N3OD41
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 26, 2022
Cuomo is predicting that voters “saw things that will DEFINITELY change the state of this race”. That’s a pretty damning statement by someone who used to hold water for Democrats. Even he couldn’t stomach what he saw.
Even one of the reporters who interviewed Fetterman before said he was much worse tonight:
I spoke to Fetterman recently, and I expected him to be very bad tonight. But he was much much worse than I expected (and much worse than in our one-on-one conversation.)
— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) October 26, 2022
This debate might have been a really big gift to Oz’s campaign. We’ll know in a few weeks.