Fetterman rejects Oz offer to hold first debate, calls list of 'concessions' insulting

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Fetterman rejects Oz offer to hold first debate, calls list of 'concessions' insulting

John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, rejected Mehmet Oz’s offer to hold their first debate next week, saying the GOP candidate’s campaign thinks “it is funny to mock” his recovery from a stroke. “I’m eager to put my record and my values up against Dr. Oz’s any day of […]

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