His campaign hasn’t raised money so quickly since Dr. Oz’s crudité gaffe.
Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman has raised more than $1 million since Tuesday, his campaign announced, since NBC aired an explosive interview with the recovering candidate. Fetterman used a closed captioning device for assistance after suffering a near-fatal stroke in May. His campaign hasn’t raised money so quickly since Dr. Oz’s crudité gaffe, in which his opponent feigned relatability by price-checking ingredients for the appetizer at a misidentified grocery store.
“In small talk before my interview [with Fetterman], it wasn’t clear he understood what I was saying,” NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns said of Fetterman, though other journalists have attempted to dismiss the allegation. “This is just nonsense,” tweeted Kara Swisher, a reporter who recently interviewed Fetterman for her podcast, and herself suffered a stroke in 2011.
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