The race will help determine control of Congress.
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The highly anticipated debate in the Pennsylvania's Senate race was held Tuesday night -- the only time this fall that Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman shared a stage, as they each vie for a seat that could tip the balance in Congress' evenly divided top chamber.
Considerable attention in the debate, hosted by Nexstar, was on Fetterman's health: The lieutenant governor suffered a stroke in May that sidelined him for three months and left him with lingering symptoms, including halting speech.
Fetterman had monitors on stage to transcribe words in real time and acknowledged early on in the hour that he would be occasionally stumbling over and confusing his words. He has said he is working with a speech therapist and has some auditory processing issues with spoken language, which neurologists say is not uncommon for stroke survivors.
Addressing his fitness for office, Fetterman pointed to a letter from his physician that he was ready for "full duty" and described his stroke as a challenge like many other people had faced and overcome.
"My campaign is all about fighting for anyone in Pennsylvania that ever got knocked down, that had to get back up again. I'm also fighting for any forgotten communities all across Pennsylvania that ever got knocked down," he said in his closing message.
Oz, a doctor and popular TV host, in his closing message pitched voters that he would bring...
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