points among likely voters. in the race for pennsylvania governor, democrat josh shapiro holds a 15-point lead over republican doug mastriano who was at the u.s. capitol during the january 6th insurrection. also tonight we ll be watching the debate between fetterman and oz. willie, some breaking news that s coming across from the wall street journal, adidas terminates its partnership with kanye west over the rapper s anti-semitic remarks. this came across a few minutes ago. and it says adidas ag said it would end its partnership with kanye west, following a string of controversies with anti-semitic outbursts. the move ends a lucrative arrangement produced the popular easy collection of sneakers, after weeks of pressure on the german sportswear company.
much of the focus of course has been on fetterman who suffered a stroke in may and has struggled at times to speak clearly at public events. in a memo sent out yesterday, fetterman s campaign acknowledge the disadvantage heading into tonight s debate. his campaign wrote this, we ll admit, this is not john s format. oz comes into tuesday night with a huge built in advantage. we are prepared for right wing media to circulate malicious videos that try to paint john in a negative light because of awkward pauses, missing words and mushing other words together. that s from the fetterman campaign, managing expectations going into this debate. there is going to be for the first time i can think of closed captioning, which means the questions will appear behind the moderators on a monitor so fetterman can lead them. oz s responses will appear on a monitor behind the moderator, so fetterman can read them before he responds. i can t remember the eve of a
we ve been talking about crime because we ve been talking about wanting to save the state. in michigan polls show republican challenger to dixon within four points of governor gretchen whitmer there as they prepare to take that debate stage, dixon pointing out how americans are tired of the left you on education. t the factor the matter is ty do not want to talk about these radical positions on and gender school sex and gender in school. republican states are focused on reading, writing, math. they are making sure they have gas tax holidays and they are making sure they have money back in the pockets of their people. at michigan governor s race is tightening commode republicans are more concerned about fetterman s chances. will campaign on his behalf november 5th.
just going to be there in the way that audiences tend to get something visually at the first. it s a shock. once you got used to there, it s there. it s still going to be a tight race. oz seems to have done a reasonable job in the suburbs, if raising issues like crime, talking about inflation and the economy. he seems to have done a reasonable job of catching up. part of the reason fetterman s campaign did the interview with dasha burns is to prepare voters for what they re going to see tonight. exactly. how much, elise, when you spoke in the focus groups, how much did fetterman s health weigh on the minds if at all of these voters? fetterman s health was the number one concern that voters had about actually if they were going to pull the plug and vote for john fetterman, if they were undecided. there were some voters who were going to vote for him because
state that has trended red. democrats are hopeful that they re not banking on that. they do worry that he may fall just short. but at minimum, ryan there in ohio, because he has been so competitive, republicans have had to pour money into that state, which means that s money it can t spend elsewhere, which can help democrats elsewhere on the map. the last two, arizona is one where that senate race, kelly still has a decent lead. democrats in despair about kari lake and the governor s race, questioning the campaign strategy from their candidate, kay hobbs, and of course there s pennsylvania, tonight, the debate that s going to matter. i know we re going to talk about it more in a minute. democrats say this, though oz has closed the gap, he s never caught fetterman. fetterman has a lead, and they feel like he s stopped his slide. they still feel good about pennsylvania. let s talk about tonight. fetterman and oz, their first and only debate in this race.