Sen. John Fetterman’s feel-good story has given way to the harsh realities of recovering from a near-fatal stroke and the difficulty of doing it on the national stage.
The Pennsylvania Democrat has struggled with speaking and comprehension since suffering a stroke in May but still managed to get elected last year. He joined the Senate in January — and then last week checked himself into a hospital to treat a bout of clinical depression.
He said dealing with a stroke first in the pressure cooker of a political campaign, and now as a sitting senator, makes things “so much harder.” The health hiccup adds another chapter to an already unique story for Mr. Fetterman, a tattooed, 6-foot-8-inch giant who fused a far-left agenda to an everyman approach to campaigning and was on his way to political stardom before the stroke.
Democrats had just taken a 51-49 edge in the chamber in 2007, and if Mr. Johnson had died, his seat would likely have been filled by a Republican, creating a 50-50 Senate which, given the vice president at the time was a Republican, would have put the chamber into the GOP’s hands. In a 2016 op-ed, Mr. Kirk said he had to relearn how to walk, talk and read. Knowing people would look at him differently, Mr. Kirk said he decided to “force people to judge me by my actions.”While his colleagues cheered him on after he was able to once again walk up the Capitol steps, he also face steep doubts.
Republicans delivered withering attacks on Mr. Fetterman’s health and his inability to keep a campaign schedule. The one debate they held was seen as a trainwreck, with Mr. Fetterman struggling to understand the questions, delivered to him in a talk-to-text format, and to formulate smooth responses.
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