 Well, the first and only debate between John Fetterman and Dr. Oz just concluded and I figured rather than waiting until tomorrow to put out a video on this I just wanted to share my response right now immediately after watching the debate while it's still fresh in my head And I've got to say you will know where I stand I am rooting for John Fetterman and I despise Dr. Oz Having said that though trying to be objective and putting myself in the mind of an undecided Pennsylvania voter I've got to say I think that this debate unfortunately was an unmitigated disaster for John Fetterman for a number of reasons now the most Pressing issue was very clearly that this debate was not very accommodating to him as someone who just recently suffered from a stroke Giving both candidates 15 seconds to respond That's just insufficient. I'm sorry even for Dr. Oz. He could barely articulate himself within 15 seconds But for John Fetterman who isn't having an issue with cognition, but he's having an issue articulating himself I think that that's very evident He needs more than 15 seconds to respond at a minimum this debate should have been longer and Response time should have been a little bit more lenient given the circumstances here if you want to Accommodate somebody who had a stroke you've got to do more than just add closed captioning So I don't think that the format of this debate was great for someone like John Fetterman in the event This were a town hall where you can casually take, you know questions from people and it was a co-town hall With dr. Oz. I think that would have been fine, but him agreeing to this debate. I Think it's gonna hurt him honestly I think that if you tuned in and you watched this debate and you were undecided You're probably coming away thinking that dr. Oz was the better candidate But that's not to say that dr. Oz did well in this debate I think that if John Fetterman was fully recovered already it would have been brutal for dr Oz because even with John Fetterman not operating at 100% struggling to articulate himself dr. Oz came off as Incredibly smarmy incredibly disingenuous incredibly pompous and he refused to answer almost any question Moderators had to ask him one two or three times to try to pin him down and he still wouldn't answer the question So it's unbelievable that when you have this huge advantage You still somehow end up looking terrible at yourself But I think that he may just win by default because John Fetterman very clearly wasn't ready for this debate I think that that's evident and on top of that if I'm talking about the format overall the moderators were terrible Every single question was framed from a right-wing standpoint for example the question on Social Security They asked them about Social Security and the way that the question was framed was something to the effect of Social Security is Only going to be fully funded until 2034 except okay, why don't you tell us what happens after that? So by 2023 it'll be fully funded until 2035 It keeps extending and even when it's not fully funded it will pay out a majority of benefits So the entire premise of the question is completely fraught and comes from this right-wing position And that's not the only question But it's just one of the most egregious examples that stood out to me and it was just a disaster Certainly, I don't think that dr. Oz came out looking good But I think he just came out looking better than John Fetterman given the circumstances here that are really unfortunate It was difficult to make out what he was saying like he would say things allude to certain policies or talking points that I know But if you're just a regular voter and you're not as well-versed or savvy You're not really gonna know what he's saying It was difficult to distinguish what he was saying on top of that from a policy standpoint John Fetterman ran away from basically every single policy position with the exception of the filibuster So dr. Oz attacked John Fetterman for being an extremist and essentially John Fetterman took the bait and he ran to the center with Which is just not good at all. So John Fetterman has historically supported Medicare for all That is essentially socialized medicine. It's where you get rid of private insurance effectively And he ran away from that just saying I want you know Medicare for all or I want healthcare rather to be Affordable he said the same about colleges, you know the progressive stance traditionally has been Free college but John Fetterman said I wanted to be affordable when it comes to the issue of fracking He's kind of flip-flopped on this but historically I actually just thought that he always supported fracking Which is one of the things that I disliked about John Fetterman But apparently in an interview that he had with savage joy someone who I actually know Um, he said that he was against fracking and this by far was the worst moment of the debate for John Fetterman Let's watch you're saying tonight that you support fracking that you've always supported fracking But there is that 2018 interview that you said quote. I don't support fracking at all. So how do you square the two? Oh, I I I do support fracking and I don't I don't I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Fetterman That was incredibly difficult to watch not just because I disagree unequivocally with John Fetterman there But because I support him and I want him to win But he just didn't have a response To this flip flop here and again, I didn't know about the flip flop But as bad as John Fetterman looked in that portion He did not look nearly as bad as dr. Oz looked when the issue of abortion came up So they asked him three times whether or not he would support Lindsey Graham's bill on abortion He didn't answer the question. The same was true for minimum wage too, by the way He just wouldn't answer the question But look at what dr. Oz said he I can't believe he actually said this He said this when it comes to who he believes should be making the choice when it comes to abortion I want women doctors local political leaders letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the Best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. So abortion is a decision that should be made between the woman her doctor and local political leaders That might be the worst take on abortion I've ever heard and I can promise you for all this talk of trying to be A balanced candidate and to bring back civility and to not be an extremist That right there is going to turn off a lot of independence and probably a lot of conservatives as well Who don't think that political leaders should be making decisions about our own Personal healthcare What an insane thing to say on top of that other demonstrable lies that Oz said was oh well I um wasn't selling bogus weight loss pills even though we all know he was featured in ads for them Take a look here. Did you or your company make a profit from promoting those products? You have 30 seconds I never sold weight loss products as as Described in those commercials It's a it's a television show like this is a television show So people can run commercials on the shows and that's a perfectly appropriate and very Transparent process I ruffled a lot of feathers on my show because I told people the truth and i'm proud of that I'll do the exact same thing as a u.s senator It is inconceivable to me that you are a voter in pennsylvania And you haven't heard about the way that dr. Oz got busted for hawking miracle weight loss pills That was a national story. It was huge So for you to lie and deny your role in that It's genuinely mind-boggling that he didn't come up with a better response than to just deny But I think that the saving grace for john fetterman Was that he brought up the Oz role repeatedly whenever he's on tv He's lying and this is something that he kept pushing which I think was really good But back to some negatives about john fetterman When it came to the question of medical transparency and why he won't reveal or release His medical records surrounding the stroke and he just has that doctor letter clearing him His response here. I think was really bad Mr. Fetterman, will you pledge tonight to release those records in the interest of transparency? You had 60 seconds To me for transparency is about showing up. I'm here today to have a debate. I have You know Speeches in front of 3 000 people in Montgomery county, you know all across pennsylvania big big crowds You know, I believe if my doctor believes that i'm fit to serve And and that's what I believe is appropriate and now with two weeks before the election You know, I have run a campaign and I've been very transparent about being very open about the fact We're in use captioning and I believe that again my doctors the real doctors that I believe In they all believe that I'm ready to be served follow up. I didn't hear you say you would release your full medical records Why not you have 30 seconds? No Again, my doctor all believes that I'm fit to be serving and that's what I believe is where I'm standing Yeah, when you're a voter and you're undecided and you're watching this and you can tell that he's very clearly struggling to articulate himself Then to see him not want to release his medical records. I think that that does raise a question I mean me personally, I don't necessarily care that much about medical records But I think that other people are not like me where they want to know, okay I see that you're struggling to articulate yourself. Perhaps they don't know that this doesn't necessarily Hinder his cognition but You know, I think that that's not really going to reassure them But Despite that, I do think that there was some positive moments from john fetterman. It wasn't all bad I do think that this zinger about bernie sanders that he threw in there was really great because dr Oz kept bringing up how john fetterman was an extremist like bernie sanders and you know, he got in a good line Take a look. He keeps talking about bernie bernie sanders, you know, three years three years ago He was on his show and he hugged him and he said I love this guy. You know what? Why don't you pretend that you you live in vermont instead of pennsylvania and run against bernie sanders Now one section that is potentially devastating for john fetterman However, is where dr. Oz brought up him pointing a gun At a black man and said, why won't you apologize john fetterman? Couldn't really articulate Why he did that right? He didn't defend himself and so when dr. Oz says why not apologize then It's a good question. Why not apologize? Why not? Try to right the wrong if you very clearly did something wrong If this wasn't the result of you racially profiling then I think we need further explanation I think that people in pennsylvania are owed a further explanation, right? And he said he was just protecting his community Sorry, that's not something that is very um Very persuasive to me. Um, so that was I think really potentially devastating But a moment that looked really embarrassing for dr. Oz Conversely is when he was asked about supporting donald trump And whether or not the legal problems worried him and he literally had the audacity to say that he hasn't followed trump's legal problems I mean just the sheer level of disingenuity from dr. Oz is It may be unprecedented. I mean he is so slimy and so fake. He is genuinely lucky That john federman was not operating At 100 capacity because if he was it would have been really easy to demonstrate How fake dr. Oz is and for somebody who has been on television for I'd imagine more than a decade dr. Oz himself said some really bogus almost incoherent things for example, he said something to the effect of and I'm paraphrasing here that fentanyl is showing up in mailboxes and they're endangering the lives of children What like what? What is that? What? Do you have any examples of this the threat of fentanyl comes from drugs? Not being regulated by the federal government to where if you buy heroin And they cut that with fentanyl. That's where it poses a danger to people's lives. This is why Fear mongering about legalizing drugs is so stupid because if you genuinely fear fentanyl Then you can cut back on overdoses By having the governments regulate drugs that are already going to exist But dr. Oz wants to embolden the black market by fear mongering about in my states Uh decriminalization of drugs Just absolutely absurd and I wish that john thederman was at 100 so he could point that out But overall just to kind of put a bow on this entire breakdown here My thoughts are a little bit scattered, but I just think that this was Not good for both of them for sure But definitely more damaging To john thederman and I wouldn't be surprised if the next couple of polls that we see Show thederman down Regardless if this debate took place or not I would have anticipated the polls to continue to tighten because that's typically what happens as we go closer to election days But I think that in the event This were to hurt john thederman politically And reduce his chances by like or cut him down by like two to three points I genuinely wouldn't be surprised. That's how disastrous I think it was and again It pains me to say that because i'm rooting for john thederman Even if I have a lot of really strong disagreements with him when it comes to policy I don't like that he has shifted to the middle when he has historically been progressive Don't run away from your progressive uh progressive stances Challenge dr. Oz and call him the extremist because he's the one who is endorsed by donald trump and all of a sudden he's distancing himself from trump and rebranding himself as More of a right-wing centrist, which is preposterous, right? So it's just overall I don't think that this debate was a good idea for john thederman's team. I think that he would have done Better for himself and his campaign to just not do this debate But I think that that kind of goes against my principle that voters need to see these two candidates Duke it out But it's difficult because they very clearly weren't willing to accommodate john thederman Who is still recovering from having a stroke? We'd be lying to say That he wasn't having trouble articulating himself He very clearly was and it's understandable because he just had a stroke the fact that he is on stage right now Is a minor miracle But if you're gonna have this debate if you're gonna agree to this debate Then the moderators have got to create a format that's much more accommodating But then again, dr. Oz came off so poorly that maybe it's a wash. I don't know. I think that's wishful thinking Honestly, I think that overall this is gonna hurt john thederman And i'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't hurt too much and that he has enough of a lead that there's some cushion there But overall now i'm really fearful that john thederman could lose this race And I just hope that that's not the case, but this was just Not easy to watch if you're rooting for thederman. So i'll leave that there really, uh, unfortunate, but That's the reality of the situation. I don't think that this is going to benefit john thederman