Jesse Watters: Democrats in 'panic mode' after Fetterman's 'terrible' debate performance

Democrats in panic mode after a terrible debate performance could cost them control of the Senate Democrat John Federman and Republican Dr mametaz clashing in their one and only debate before Pennsylvania voters cast their ballots and it was a total train wreck for the left fetterman who's recovering from a stroke not only stumbling through his answers but flip-flopping on key issues watch hi good night everybody and let's also talk about the elephant in the room I had a stroke he's never let me forget that and my Dr L believes that I'm fit to be serving and that's what I believe is where I'm standing John Federman doing this crime wave has been trying to get as many murderers convicted and sentenced to life in prison out of jail as possible I believe that I run on my record on crimes I'm the only person on this stage right now that has con is successful about pushing back against gun violence there is that 2018 interview that you said quote I don't support fracking at all so how do you square the two I I do support fracking and I don't I don't I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking betterments Camp blaming the captioning system provided for him is being delayed and filled with errors but that quickly got shut down team fetterman also dropping f-bombs to spin the awful performance as a win I think the people of Pennsylvania saw a relatable guy who's been doing his recovery in public for quite some time and for a guy who was just in the you know the hospital months ago took it to Dr Oz pretty far tonight and Democrats in the liberal media having a hard time convincing themselves that the party just didn't totally blow it was hard to watch frankly it's very obvious that he is imperative and maybe the next cycle would have been the better cycle for him to run because we require representation I think it takes real bravery to allow people to see your weakness right there was such intense scrutiny often ableist scrutiny Republicans are out there tonight saying that fetterman is unfit he should withdraw but do they not have a race in the state of Georgia someone running for the very same position in Herschel Walker who's facing family scandals lies about his past jobs Greg that was hard to watch did you feel bad for John fetterman up there no I felt bad for Oz did you yeah he was terrible no uh I know actually I I think Oz did a good I mean it was like it was like having bad Wi-Fi you know Fatima just kept going in and going out I felt kind of bad for him but he could have diffused the bomb much better if he just said you know when he said elephant he should have said look my mind works fine but my body's catching up I feel like I'm a dial-up modem right now in a 5G World make a joke but there wasn't a joke to diffuse the situation and I this abeless scrutiny BS look pretending to be concerned or disgusted because people are talking about that you put him out there you put him out there you're allowing everybody to watch this so it's on you if you say people are being able we don't mind Dan Crenshaw right we don't mind Governor Abbott so we're not ableist we're talking about is this guy fit for the job and there's a reason why you're mad because you didn't want him to debate because it looks so bad and now you have him out there now you're trying to pin it on everybody else but I did I felt like I was watching Leia Thomas swimming with you know the girls swim team it just wasn't fair but I think that Oz did pretty good he I felt like he was letting up on the gas when it got bad you did yeah I thought you thought that was smart yeah okay yeah Dana we're actually we haven't shown you basically everything I mean you could look at every single answer and be like oh my God that was horrible what happens now sort of so we were on a little text thread last night and whatever stream I was watching was about I think two minutes behind where you guys were and so I was like and I so I was anticipating like oh wow that was bad I could see what was coming so I think a couple of things one I think it's notable that Dr Oz did not say anything about the stroke he agreed to the closed captioning he allowed that to happen the second thing is they started early voting in September September 19th I believe for this election over way over a million votes have already been cast and there was a news nation that the host of the debate they had a focus group and there were some Democrats there who and leaning in Independence that were leaning Democrat who were already thinking oh boy wait what have we done and that doesn't necessarily mean that they would have voted for Dr Oz maybe they would have but they might have chosen Conor lamb who was the other Democrat who was running in the primary John federman's stroke was before the primary then he and his wife kept telling everybody he's fine he's fine he's fine remember like for about eight weeks and now they're saying um there are some Democrats saying oh maybe he never should have debated anyway I think that's wrong like if you aren't really concerned about democracy and you want Integrity in elections I think debates are important and as you move forward in the states and thinking about these rules perhaps early voting should not be allowed to start until after the first debate has been held I think that would be fair the next thing is I think this team uh his team needs to get their story straight the first thing they came out and said John fetterman did a great job strong performance and that guy uses the f word right to say how great it was then the next thing they do is they try to say that the technology was to blame for the stumbles and that forced the company next star to come out and say actually it worked perfectly fine this is what they agreed to and all of that if Republicans win in Pennsylvania they're going to get the majority so I think that's why you have a lot of Democrats sort of hand-wringing this morning but aside from the stroke I do want to say I think that it was a bad policy debate for fetterman on energy horrible on the economy and on crime in particular student debt all of those it on the issues it wasn't strong either really really bad and he was asked by the moderator twice and I think the moderators did a pretty good job are you going to release your medical records and he still after this will not release the records he refuses to release the records the look the guy had a stroke I think it's five months ago okay many people who have strokes are right now in rehab been therapy and cognitive therapy it is clear that he did not have the ability to answer anything beyond the most the most you know how can I say this that's superficial right part of it there was no in-depth no substantive discussion he could not go down to A B C or D and so he promotes himself saying see I showed how good I am how great I'm feeling I don't know that anyone who watched that debate is saying to themselves gee that's the guy I want to represent me in the Senate this guy couldn't answer why he's against it was against fracking four years ago but now is in favor of it and you could say it's a stroke and you know God bless him I hope he gets better but we're talking about the Senate we're talking about a country that's divided a country where everything matters every fact every issue you just don't look at the substance the The Superficial layer you've got to go down he's got a progressive socialist ideology where he wants to release one-third of the criminals in prison he wants to get rid of parole for lifers who were in jail I mean this is a guy who is not uh in the mainstream and there's no question September 19th they started voting and now he has the debate on October 25th whether it's 650 000 or a million have already voted they can't change that vote and there's one more thing I want to say you know it just reminded me of Joe Biden remember Joe Biden he was in the basement we've got kovid and his wife Jill is walking him around I feel like the same thing is happening here with fetterman's wife saying oh he's fine he's fine maybe maybe you should be taking better care of him maybe he should be in rehab maybe this isn't the time for him to be running you know it's just my opinion and and of all candidates it's fetterman that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are going to go to Pennsylvania together and campaign with together what does that tell you well I think you I think you framed right this this race here could very well determine decide who is in the majority in the Senate it was painful to watch there's no doubt this is a a person a human being who clearly uh is battling his recovery and battling with the recovery to get through and you have to hope and prayed he does get through it but I'm not sure it affects the outcome uh in any in any meaningful way I think that the issues here that Dana raised or issues that he's been campaigning on from the very beginning and he won the Primary he's now it sounds seems like he's three or four points ahead here in the uh and as we get to the November here I do think an argument should be made about can be made about this early vote piece but voters who don't want to go vote early don't have to go vote early and if if Oz had been had had a poor performance some may have said well maybe maybe I should have held my vote back to see how how he made it performed or high in the affair during the debate look Obama Biden everyone's going to descend upon this state and frankly for Democrats what they're really hoping is that Shapiro the gubernatorial candidate the Democratic good material candidate who I think is the best best Democratic good material candidate in the country can help pull fetterman over the over the Finish Line as well you want fetterman in the Senate well I I don't what I do want or the some of his views and some of his ideas I don't agree with all of it crazy ideas I was more of someone else in that race I was supportive of in the primary his politics that politics of counter lamb was more like mine yeah that being said I'm not sure this affected the outcome this is not going to influence the outcome of this race very much I'll take this debate he's a wounded animal that can't cut it in Washington and that's a sad part of it yeah that is a set I'm not saying I'd agree with them that is the reality of it hey Sean Hannity here hey click here to subscribe to Fox News YouTube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 27 2022