Democratic Pennsylvania senatorial candidate John Fetterman compared the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He also noted that his rival, Republican candidate Mehmet Oz, called for a pardon for the participants in the raid.
According to Breitbart, when Fetterman was questioned how the Capitol riots shaped his campaign by the chairwoman of the Erie County Black Democratic Caucus, Selena King, the candidate responded, "The last thing I would actually kind of think it was similar, that feeling of 9/11, you know, when you see the planes hit." He continued:
We had this idea where, you, I watched this, and I can’t believe that you have thousands of people like overrunning, you know, our government like that, and how jarring and shocking and how police officers die there. And now, of course, Trump, and now by Oz, supported pardoning all of them, you know, like this idea — this insurrectionists — that how anybody could believe and try to normalize that is something that we just absolutely can not ever accept as a nation.
The Democratic hopeful needs to gain momentum after his performance in last week's televised debate with his Republican rival. After starting the campaign as the favorite, Fetterman now finds himself tied with or even surpassed by Oz in all polls heading into Election Day on Nov. 8.
