i m feeling much better. doctors told me i didn t suffer cognitive damage. okay. so the primary continued as planned with fetterman s name on the ballot and fetterman won. he became the democratic nominee. that was the last that most voters heard about john fetterman s stroke. for months, fetterman remained in semiseclusion. as the campaign progressed, the polls tightened, he had to venture. he had no choice. videos surfaced of fetterman speaking at rallies in what seemed a bizarre and highly disjointed way. some wondered if he d suffered, quote, no cognitive damage. they rushed forward to bring science to bear on this question. in clifford chen s considered opinion as a respected medical professional, who works at a major research university, john fetterman was absolutely fine. fetterman was, quote, recovering well from his stroke. he had, quote, no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office. in other words, john fetterman was as sharp and as healthy as you o
on it, actually . r monthsded fo with blake masters, his campaign. our producers basically live with blake masterslake mas. he got to meet some of his peop closest advisors and consultants. their people have known blake masters for a long time. here s a preview from thatreview documentary. e i m kyle kirchhoff. title i don t have a formal title,re but i volunteer for the campaign, blake, and i ve blak best friends for like fifteen years. d i have i help a lot with the videos, the ads design, the logo, all the creative direction go full auto. and i think that most of the candidates are just used to hiring pretty conventionalconsul consultanttas, very cool. kind of give them risk averse canned responses, tell them what to sa, telly based on pollg and we kind of base things, ini intuition and then work backwards on that gun ad specifically. you know, i don backwardt really like i m not very big. i like guns, obviously.
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attacking the nra. i think there are a couple things. i am pro-responsible gun ownership and pro-gun control. one of the things isth the probm is we framed this argument as if those two things can t coexist. as far as nikolas cruz, i think some of the things you were saying are correct. when we talk about the great mills situation, someone who by all accounts was a good kid, had no problems, respectful, and honor student. gun.ad access to a that becomes the big problem. tucker: there are millions of students who meet that description of access to guns who don t hurt anybody. in the case of nikolas cruz. should millions of young children tucker: they have access and there are millions of american homes where people safely keep firearms for protection. there are lots of kids , i m, kids hunt in rural america, lots
and 2012 where the gop ends up with a candidate that s so far out that there costs them their opportunity to take back the senate. with us we have a political columnist with the des moines register. i don t know about you. i m having flashbacks to an earlier time of my life of mitt romney in iowa. but let me ask you this. i m going to say something here that i m going to make any political media consultant happy. we re hearing about the media constaultants in campaigns. they make a fortune off the percentages and really it s the grass roots stuff that matters. i look at this race in iowa from afar and i see joni who has come out of nowhere and is poised potential potentially to win this thing on tuesday. it s the ads. it s the hog ad. it s the gun ad. these things viscerally spoke to the tea party base. without those ads, she could have door to door campaigned for