With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, the news cycle was understandably dominated by key campaign races. None more so than Pennsylvania, where Democrat John Fetterman took on Republican Mehmet Oz in a debate. Fetterman, who suffered a stroke earlier this year, had a rough night. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker was hit with another abortion accusation. And Elon Musk finally closed out the Twitter deal. Here are the quotes of the week.
“Listen, I know Charlie is interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear. The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.”
- Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) takes aim at his gubernatorial opponent Charlie Crist during their debate.
“I experienced a similar decision-making process with my ownership of Hobby Lobby. I chose God.”
- In announcing his decision to give up ownership of Hobby Lobby, CEO and founder David Green cited his religion as the reason he is relinquishing it.
“I can at least say with Latino voters, we’ve never tried as a party. The Democratic Party has not tried in terms of Latino electorates.”
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes Democratic outreach to the Latino electorate has been found wanting.
“I’m not here to sell people on the idea that the leadership of the Democratic Party, which is overwhelmingly from one generation, almost uniformly from one generation, and overwhelmingly from a lopsided class perspective, is the same as me or you or anything else like that.”
- Ocasio-Cortez tells Pod Save America that the Democrats have a leadership age problem.
“Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they’re not making a secret of it.”
- Hillary Clinton claims without evidence that there is a plot to steal the 2024 presidential election.
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“Goodnight, everybody.”
- Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman opens his debate with Mehmet Oz saying goodbye.
“I do support fracking and I don’t. … I support fracking, and I stand and I do support fracking.”
- Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman struggles to articulate an answer on fracking flip-flopping.
“The real doctor … that all believe I am ready to be served.”
- Fetterman again garbles a response when asked about his physical condition.
“It was really strange to me that [Oz] chose to bully a stroke victim. Like, he obviously was bullying him.”
- The View’s Sunny Hostin thinks Oz was being unfair to Fetterman during the debate.
“I didn’t kill JFK either.”
- Herschel Walker denies the latest allegations from another woman who accused him of forcing her to get an abortion.
“Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences.”
- Elon Musk explains his reasons to advertisers for buying Twitter but emphasizes that there will be moderation in some form.
“Looks like the debate didn’t hurt us too much in Pennsylvania.”
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is caught in a hot mic moment speaking to Biden about the Oz-Fetterman debate.
“Any actor who’s been canceled is now my favorite actor. Because that means they are probably doing something good.”
- Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she has a hard time watching anything now because everything is too woke.
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“You know, historically, swimming in America is very racist. Usually, when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color because a lack of access.”
- Gisele Fetterman, wife of John, tells a podcast why she believes swimming is racist.
“I made a mistake here. I was wrong.”
- Financial analyst Jim Cramer apologizes for backing Meta stock and telling CNBC watchers to buy. Stock prices have plummeted since then.
