Tucker Carlson Suggests John Fetterman Can Win Only by Election Fraud
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© Mark Makela/Getty Images Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman waits to speak during a joint rally with Democratic candidate for Governor Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro at Norris Park on October 15, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fetterman is seen as favored to defeat Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Wednesday that Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman could win the state’s open Senate seat due to election fraud.
Carlson said on his prime-time show that Fetterman, a Democrat, is “mentally defective” and that it will be “absurd” if he defeats Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz.
His comments come after the first and only debate between Oz and Fetterman, which raised further concerns about the Democrat’s health as he continues to recover from a stroke in May this year.
“It’s not about the person,” Carlson said. “It’s about the party. It’s not about the individual. It’s about the group. And to prove it, they can even run mentally defective candidates who can barely speak, and not only expect them to win, but expect you to accept the outcome no matter how transparently absurd it is.
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“On November 9, they will be telling you that John Fetterman got 81 million votes in Pennsylvania, and they’ll threaten to put you in jail if you don’t believe it,” Carlson went on. “Why wouldn’t they do that? It worked with Joe Biden.”
Newsweek has asked the Fetterman campaign for comment. The Democrat leads Oz in the latest polls by 47.3 percent to 46 percent.
Carlson was referring to the fact that President Biden won more than 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, while former President Donald Trump secured over 74 million votes.
Trump has repeatedly questioned the outcome in 2020, and he and some of his allies have made unfounded claims that the election suffered from voter fraud and other irregularities.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) concluded in a statement issued on November 12, 2020 that the election was “the most secure in American history,” and courts have consistently rejected efforts to challenge the results.
Oz, who has been endorsed by former President Trump, has been narrowing the gap with Fetterman, and poll tracker FiveThirtyEight finds that the Democratic is “slightly favored” to win with a 60 percent chance of victory.
The celebrity heart surgeon said he would support Trump if he ran for president again in 2024 when he was asked about the matter in his debate with Fetterman.
“I would support Donald Trump if he decided to run for president, but this is bigger than one candidate. This is a much-bigger story about how we are going to build a bigger tent so that more Americans feel safe,” Oz said.
Fetterman said during an appearance on Wednesday that Tuesday’s debate “wasn’t exactly easy.”
“I knew it wasn’t going to be easy… after having a stroke after five months. In fact, I don’t think that’s ever been done before in American political history before, actually,” he said.
The Pennsylvania race could be crucial in deciding which party controls the Senate after the November midterms, and FiveThirtyEight rates the battle for the Senate as a dead heat.
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