Fetterman's wife says Democratic Senate candidate may be away from campaign trail until July as he r
Source: CNN
Braddock, Pennsylvania (CNN)Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman may be away from the campaign trail until July, his wife told CNN on Monday, as she pushed back on suggestions that the family had not been fully transparent about the extent of his heart condition following a stroke last month.
"I think he deserves a month break to come back as strong as ever," Giselle Fetterman said in an interview with CNN. "This is going to be a tough race and a really important race. I want him to be fully ready for it."
Asked if John Fetterman, who serves as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, would return to campaigning by July in one of the nation's marquee Senate contests, she replied: "Maybe. I think so. That's my hope."
Fetterman checked himself into a hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May 13 as he was on his way to a campaign event. He was found to have suffered a stroke, which doctors treated, and he was released on May 22 after a nine-day stay. Fetterman's cardiologist said Friday that the candidate suffers from both atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy.
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And native PA people are wary of carpet baggers.
(but I will say that I am ashamed that we unleashed loons like Newt Gingrich, Orrin Hatch, Ron Paul, and his EVIL SPAWN from the stinking slimy sludge of PA, and into the world
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lived in PA. Of course, I think that is completely untrue and I wholeheartedly agree with you!
Let's hope Dems and the mostly so-called but not liberal at all corporate media doesn't try to force Fetterman out. I can see Andrea (Past her sell date) Mitchell with show after show saying that for the good of his family and the party, he needs to drop out 
But hey, what could go wrong if Oz wins that Senate seat? His Mom has Alzheimer's Disease and he supposedly has the genetic markers for it, is fine I guess since he is a GQP'er. If it's good enough for Reagan 
I mean, that Quack Oz could occupy the seat next to fellow GQP'er Herschel Walker who has a chance to win/steal Rafael Warnock's seat, yet we KNOW something's definitely wrong with Walker. Friends in Georgia tell me that practically NO ONE's telling Walker to drop out, and although none of us are doctors, it doesn't take one to see that he's going through big-time cognitive decline, on top of his multiple personalities, ignorance, russian roulette wheel-playing, woman-abusing and pulling a gun on his ex-wife self. Oh, and being a 'token' for the GQP as my friends down in Georgia tell me on the regular.
Fair enough
As for Grassley .....
You know what, I think he's in trouble and will leave even with his landslide win, because he too is up to his hips in Jan. 6th attempted coup. Remember in the beginning he had nerve to say that the election may have been stolen from tRump
But now as more information surfaces .....
Why did Chuck Grassley expect Pence's absence from the Capitol on 6 January?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/11/2068803/-So-why-did-Chuck-Grassley-expect-Pence-s-absence-from-the-Capitol-on-6-January
And you and I both know His ass is grass would try to stay in office until 100 like that other child probable rapist/racist Dixiecrat Thurmond. Friends in SC tell me that he was on fumes while in the Senate also, in that he'd understandably started to forget who and where he was. He wasn't voting on bills et al. Someone else was it was alleged. The telling sign was him not remembering people he'd known for decades.
He'll win in a landslide as you said, but it's good to know he got some backlash for his love of the gun and of not giving a damn about how many people have to be slaughtered before we get any meaningful gun legislation:
Sen. Chuck Grassley's Iowa Town Hall Heats Up over Inaction on Gun Violence: 'The Answer Is Not to Do Nothing.'
https://people.com/politics/iowa-town-hall-heats-up-over-inaction-on-gun-violence/
Grassley is small potatoes as far as January 6th. I don't believe that a single member of Congress or even Trump will be indited. I'd be happy to be wrong though. 
Maryland has its primary July 19 and there is a (D) candidate running against him.
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 10:42 PM ET, Sun May 22, 2022
Washington (CNN)Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Sunday he's been released from the hospital after suffering a "minor stroke" last week. "It's great to be back home after a long week. I'm grateful for the generous outpouring of support from everyone and the dedicated care I received from the team at GW," the Maryland Democrat tweeted.
The lawmaker was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after he had been "experiencing lightheadedness and acute neck pain" while delivering a speech in his home state, according to a previous statement. He said in the statement at the time he had sought medical help upon returning home at a doctor's recommendation.
Van Hollen, who is up for reelection this year, said his doctors told him "there are no long-term effects or damage as a result of this incident." His hospitalization served as another reminder of Democrats' thin majority in the 50-50 Senate, where they cannot afford to lose any votes.
Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico returned to work in March after suffering a stroke earlier this year. Earlier Sunday, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the commonwealth's open Senate seat, was released from the hospital nine days after he checked in and was found to have suffered a stroke.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/politics/chris-van-hollen-stroke-released-hospital/index.html
By Josh Kurtz
May 16, 2022
Here’s a hopeful sign that U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who suffered a mild stroke over the weekend, is on the mend: His wife, Katherine Van Hollen, pinch-hit for him Monday morning at a scheduled public appearance. Other than confessing to being over-caffeinated, she was in good spirits.
The senator was due to speak at a fundraiser in Baltimore for the Maryland Health Care For All Coalition. He’s resting for the next few days after taking ill at the Western Maryland Democratic Summit on Saturday. While Van Hollen was speaking at the summit late Saturday morning, he experienced some light-headedness and felt a pop in the back of his neck.
But it wasn’t apparent to the members of the audience; they thought he was leaning into the podium for dramatic effect during a rousing partisan address. Only hours later, after a visit to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., did doctors realize that Van Hollen had had a mild stroke.
But the 63-year-old senator is on the mend, his wife reported at the Maryland Health Care For All fundraiser. “Chris is very unhappy and frustrated that he can’t be here in person,” Katherine Van Hollen said. Her husband, she said, was “eager” to get out of the hospital and return to work as quickly as possible, which is likely to happen later this week, according to his office.
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https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/05/16/van-hollen-eager-to-get-back-to-work-his-wife-tells-baltimore-political-gathering/
And what about NM (D) Senator Ben Ray Luján who suffered a stroke at the end of January and finally made it back to the Senate in early March. He's even YOUNGER than Fetterman (49 years old) and just got re-elected in 2020.
By Associated Press | March 3, 2022, at 5:16 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico returned to Congress on Thursday for the first time since he had a stroke, which kept him away from Washington for weeks and temporarily weakened Democrat's hold on power in the equally divided Senate.
Luján received a standing ovation as he entered a morning hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and was greeted with hugs and fist-bumps from senators later as he stood on the Senate floor during votes.
Teary-eyed, he thanked colleagues at the morning hearing for their support and told them: “It’s an absolute honor to be back.”“Every one of you that sent me notes, that sent videos, and all the prayers -- it worked,” Luján said.
Luján, 49, began experiencing dizziness and fatigue on Jan. 27 and checked himself into a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his office said. He was diagnosed as having had a stroke in the cerebellum and he had surgery to ease swelling in his brain.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-03-03/sen-ben-ray-lujan-absolute-honor-to-be-back-after-stroke
So do we fucking throw all of our Democrats under the bus unless they are in picture perfect Jack LaLanne health?
DU needs to stop gaslighting our candidates with this bullshit.
No there isn't. It's a "seat" in a 50-50 Senate, where we sit on the edge of "losing control" with the loss of ONE Democrat yet we are here arguing about a seat that we hope BOLSTERS Democrats in the Senate, and are now gaslighting him for some reason.
And be aware that my whole thrust of argument is that there seems to be weighting a "loss of control" of the Senate and associating that with Fetterman, where people forget that the current seat is Teabagger Toomey's seat.
Call it cynical if you like, but the political calculus is straightforward. If the party believes (for example) that a stroke will cause a 2-3 point loss in support. The "what do we do next?" question is answered differently when that only endangers one of the two races.
My argument has nothing to do with "support". He has huge support here in PA, particularly among Democrats, to the point of beating Lamb by a 2 - 1 margin. Republicans have still been split on whether they support someone like Oz, to the point where you have RW PACs like Club For Growth who were pumping all their money behind someone (Barnett) NOT Oz, which is why she even came in 3rd in their primary.
It's also worth noting that Van Hollen is back at work and voting in the Senate while we're currently discussing whether Fetterman can return to the campaign trail in a month. He also didn't get a pacemaker and have a doctor reveal that he had been ignoring critical medical advice for years. They both had a stroke on the same weekend perhaps... but they are not similarly-situated in terms of health concerns going forward.
Is Van Hollen "on the campaign trail" going to every County in the state of MD? He has a primary challenger and the primary is July 17.
PA's primary is DONE. Fetterman went to EVERY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF PA before the primary and before his illness.
And note, I am absolutely NOT against Van Hollen. He has been an incredible Rep. in the House and recently as a Senator. But the point is that why is there this cherry-picking?
You had a 49-year old Senator from NM who was out after his stroke for over a month, and is back but only at "90%". We haven't even given Fetterman that chance, and he is has probably campaigned more than any of these other people since he announced.
We have been told he'll be back on the trail starting in July, and that is when there are many Independence Day celebrations including the annual "Wawa Welcome America" celebration here in Philly, which might make this a good stop considering he has the "Sheetz vs Wawa" thing going.
Turns out we were right. While I don't always agree with you, keep doing what you're doing. 
So you have admitted that he "won" and is a sitting Senator? 
Does that apply to Van Hollen who is up for re-election?
It was taken from your own post that was a reply to Deminpenn as some kind of allusion to something about "being elected" ?
When was the last time he was at a campaign event (hint I looked)?
I saw something announced as a "Kick-Off" to occur in Frederick, MD that had a bunch of "TBD"s on it for the end of the month -
Yet you thought that Lamb was "serious competition" against Fetterman and also thought that Summer Lee didn't have a chance against Steve Irwin in the new PA-12... Yet here we are. So methinks the Magic 8-ball needs a replacement.
How is it "the next month"? Today is June 7 and all that was announced was that he would get going in July. July is what? 3 weeks from now? When is Van Hollen STARTING? At the end of this month.
And Oz is a fucking carpet-bagger loon who is a resident of NJ. I have been sending $$ to Fetterman's campaign and he raised almost $2 million the day after his primary win.
I see there's a lot of the below going on here.
and is also up for re-election. I know they are chomping at the bits in MD as that seat has always been competitive given the sometime "swingy" nature of MD - which currently has a GOP governor who decided not to run for it, but easily could have.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2926834
Van Hollen's wife was out on the trail on his behalf in Baltimore after that happened last month -
We can't let the GOP define us and what we can and can't do. Why do their work for them?
Our issues are gun control, women's reproductive rights, voting rights, climate change, and clean energy, among other policies, and we need to stick to that and pound it home. 
Have you seen any polls since the primary was supposedly decided in terms of a concession by McCormick (although the official counts aren't sue to be completed and reported until tomorrow)?
It's pretty sad that as crazy as this state has become recently, that some are convinced that the same people who voted for Biden are going to vote for Oz?
And let me ask you a question - do you know why Rick Santorum lost his seat by 18% to Bob Casey, Jr. in 2006? Hint - it has a lot to do with what Oz is going to have a problem with.
No, everyone else has "spun" my pointing out the hypocrisy of suddenly hand-wringing about a candidate for a seat that is currently a REPUBLICAN SEAT due to perceived "health issues" where if he actually LOST, then it would make no damn difference to the CURRENT make up of the Senate as 50 - 50.
But if candidates like Van Hollen and current sitting (D) members like Lujan, Leahy, and Feinstein, among others, have a "health episode", we could immediately LOSE CONTROL OF THE SENATE. Not in 2021 but right now.
And again, THAT was not my point. See above.
some are convinced that the same people who voted for Biden are going to vote for Oz?
Can you truthfully say that you didn't make the same assumption about Youngkin in VA?
I live here in PA and was not only born and raised here but am multi-generational, and PA is not VA, which is THE SOUTH and a former slave state with the fucking Capital of the Confederacy that after a century, has finally come to a reckoning with their entrenched glorification of their racist history and past.
What is happening right now with respect to elections here in PA in terms of "modern politics" offers a very unique opportunity, yet what I see on DU is the same old thing that I saw manifest when I first got here - trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's the same crap that happened with Obama here both in 2008 and 2012.
into quite a bit of woo too, but I suppose it depends on how much he really wants this seat and if he decides to "go there".
And this is also because as was noted regarding McCormick's sudden concession, there is another PA seat up (Casey's) in 2 years (which would be during a higher-turnout Presidential election cycle and more chance to flip that seat, that used to be Frothy's seat), and Casey isn't nor ever has been as "populist" or "bombastic" as a Fetterman. In fact he's just the opposite.
I don't believe it will work.
But I don't think she'll need to do that. The Fetterman's have a young family and he is not so callous as to ignore his health again and leave them fatherless.
