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The situation has gotten dire with John Fetterman, the Democrat Pennsylvania Senator who is
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presumably in a hospital right now to treat clinical depression. Folks, I'm Carmine Sabia and this is Explain America
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America group on Facebook. Folks, John Fetterman has been tucked away in a hospital for weeks now
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He started off his senatorial career by being admitted to the hospital for dizziness
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He came out of the hospital for dizziness and subsequently went back to the hospital
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this time for clinical depression. At this point, people are starting to get suspicious as Fetterman did suffer a stroke
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during the campaign against Dr. Oz for the Senate. Now you've been in the hospital twice and you just got into office
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Something does not seem right to a lot of people. Among those people are the Pennsylvania Republicans who are demanding now to see a video as proof
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of life of Senator John Fetterman. They are demanding at this point to see proof of life
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That is how serious it has gotten. Now, I don't necessarily begrudge a man for getting help for clinical depression
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That is a serious issue and I think that the stigma should be off of that
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I think that if somebody's depressed, they should be able to get help and not be mocked
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for it. But the timing of said clinical depression, a man who in his life has never been hospitalized
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for clinical depression is suddenly hospitalized for clinical depression. He said he had depression his whole life, but this is the worst it's ever been
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He gets hospitalized. Sad case. Comes weeks after he, not even weeks after he comes out of the hospital for being dizzy
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You've got to forgive people if they find suspicion in this. Now if Fetterman resigns, it would trigger a special election if he resigns or he's removed
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because the Republicans have threatened legislative action if they don't see proof of life to
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have him removed. So if he's removed or resigns, a special election gets set up and that could change the entire
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balance of power in the Senate because right now, Kyrsten Sinema is an independent, Bernie
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Sanders is independent, there's several other independents, they all caucus with the Democrats
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which gives the Democrats a 51 to 50 edge in the Senate
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But if Fetterman resigns and if a Republican wins that seat, two big ifs, but if that happens
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we go back to a 50-50 Senate and now things get dicey
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Now things get very dicey. And you have, you know, the tie-breaking vote again is Kamala Harris
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You have Sinema or Manchin, instead of Sinema and Manchin, to hold up legislation that Joe
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Biden wants to get passed. So we're talking about very big things here and it all rides on Fetterman's shoulders
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which is why the Democrats are probably willing, if they had to, to hook him up to life support
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and ride it that way. They don't really care. They just want to keep that power
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And they put this man through a lot to get that power. And that, folks, that's the shame of it all
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I absolutely wish Senator Fetterman and his family the best in this very difficult time
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And I pray that he gets the help that he needs and that he recovers quickly and gets back
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to his family. And maybe he thinks about what's really important in life. And maybe it's not the U.S. Senate
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With that, folks, I want to thank you for joining us here on Explain America. Again, I'm Carmine Sabia
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God bless you. Take care, everybody
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