question what will pennsylvania voters think of john fetterman s debate performance? the senate race showdown produced big policy clashes between the two. it was also an hour long look at fetterman s ongoing recovery from a stroke. i m also having to talk about something called the oz rule that if he s on tv, he s lying. he didn t pay for his own house. he got it for a dollar from his sister and he hasn t been able to earn a living on his own. plus, 13 days out, president biden tries another take at a closing message. new steps announced today he says will help ease the pain of inflation. a warning, republican control of congress, the president says, will bring government shutdowns and chaos, the camera captures a call between donald trump and blake masters. the former president s advice, peddle election lies at every turn. if they say how is your family, say the election was rigged and stolen. you lose if you go soft. you ll lose that base. i m not going soft. up
the lead starts right now. the day after the heated debate in pennsylvania, how john fetterman struggles after a stroke going over with voters plus the new ad attacking mehmet oz and his awkward answer on abortion rights. they got him therapy, tried to take his gun. still, it was not enough. a family s actions before a gunman s rampage in a school with a rifle and 600 rounds of ammunition. plus, new protests in iran mark 40 days since a woman died in police custody accused of violating the country s dress code. could this be the start of a revolution? welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. a new report in our politics lead. a second woman claimed that herschel walker of georgia pressured her to get an abortion. she s not revealing her identity out of fear of reprisal, she says. her attorney, gloria allred, helped lay out her claims a short time ago. eva, what are we learning here? reporter: we are getting incredible detail from this woman who says sh
cnn s chief national affairs correspondent reports on the debate faceoff that s making supporters of john fetterman nervous. the spotlight on pennsylvania intensified. a day after a debate between john fetterman and mehmet oz sharpened the stakes in the battle for control of the senate. i had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. the question is not what oz thinks of his rival. obviously i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. but whether voters believe fetterman has recovered from a stroke in may and should be elected to a six-year term in washington. i don t think he has recovered from the stroke. jan welsh was watching closely and said she found fetterman s performance embarrassing. i had questions about oz earlier, but after listening with him against fetterman, it s definitely oz. but craig said he was turned off by what he saw as oz picking on fetterman. do you think he s healthy enough to be a oh, my. he gets healthier every day.
on the subject of abortion for mehmet oz. this is who doctor oz wanton charge of women s health care decisions i want women, doctors, local, political leaders. local, political leaders. local, political leaders. oz would like a politician like doug mastriano ban abortion without exceptions. even in cases of rape, incest, for life of the mother. oz is too extreme for pennsylvania. i am john fetterman, and i approve this message. on the other side, the trump super pac went out with this new at the day after the debate called just not right. the worst border crisis in american history, the worst crime wave in decades, the threat of nuclear annihilation, our economy collapsing, joe biden and john fetterman aren t up to these challenges. biden is stumbling around, and
look at pennsylvania, and i look at why did donald trump carry it in 2016, and then lose it in 2020. and the answer, when you look at the map here, it just comes screaming at you, the suburbs right outside of philadelphia where you got these voters who did not like donald trump, and right now, by all indications of the polling, they are not to found of democrats. in that debate, oz seemed, when he was pressed on it, he seemed to go out of his way to endorse trump for 2024. and i see that he is going to do a rally with trump in pennsylvania on the saturday before the election, is he risking the very voters that he needs the suburban voters, they may not want to vote for democrats but is he aligning himself too closely with trump? yeah, there is no doubt, trump is a double edged sword, you see, mastriano, not a