Washington CNN —
The leading candidates in the pivotal US Senate race in Pennsylvania, Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, participated Tuesday in the only debate of the race.
Some of their claims were false, misleading or missing key context. Here is a fact check of nine things they said.
Fetterman was asked about his past opposition to hydraulic fracturing, better known as “fracking,” a method of extracting oil and natural gas from rock formations deep underground.
Even after a debate moderator read out a Fetterman quote from 2018 in which he expressed firm opposition to fracking, Fetterman claimed that he had never opposed fracking.
“I’ve always supported fracking,” he said.
Facts First: Fetterman’s claim that he has always supported fracking is false. As reported by CNN’s KFILE team last week and noted by the debate moderator, Fetterman told a left-wing YouTube channel during his 2018 run for lieutenant governor: “I don’t support fracking, at all, and I never have.” And when he was running for the US Senate in 2016, Fetterman wrote in a comment on Reddit: “I am not pro-fracking and have stated that if we did things right in this state, we wouldn’t have fracking. The industry is a stain on our state and natural resources.”
In that Reddit comment, which was first reported by Fox, Fetterman added: “But yes, of course I worry about the viability of getting a ban on fracking done when the industry is...
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