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The Media’s Cover-Up of John Fetterman
A cardboard cutout of John Fetterman stands atop campaign supplies. (Mark Makela via Getty Images)
No amount of spin can undo what voters witnessed on the debate stage last night in Pennsylvania.
By Peter Savodnik
10.26.22 — U.S. Politics
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It should now be crystal clear why Democrat John Fetterman refused to take part in more than a single debate with his Republican Senate rival, Mehmet Oz, and why Fetterman insisted on pushing that debate to just two weeks before Election Day—after at least 500,000 Pennsylvania voters had already voted.

Last night’s debate was an unmitigated disaster. 

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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