John Fetterman says stroke he suffered ‘changes everything’ about his life

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate insists his disability is temporary, while his opponent Mehmet Oz has mocked him for it

John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate whose health has been mocked by his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, during a rancorous race for Pennsylvania's US Senate seat, has admitted the stroke he suffered in May changes everything" about his life.

In a televised interview with NBC, in which he used a closed captioning machine to be able to read the questions put to him, he insisted his disability was temporary, and that in January I'm going [to] be much better - and Dr Oz is still going to be a fraud".