The debate was painful to watch but in reality this was Oz's spectacle to lose. It was clear that he'd been coached with conservative talking points and the rapid fire pacing of the questions were throwing him off as well.

Quite frankly, there are career politicians in both parties who are collecting a government paycheck and a pension who have LONG degraded mentally. Even "debate" on the floor is a tame compared to how this televised debacle went.

Bear in mind that I'm not excusing Fetterman's responses but the whole "debate" was a spectacle that was engineered to make soundbytes for those who get their news off their Twitter feeds. I'm actually surprised that he even acquiesced to attend given how each candidate was given ridiculously low times limits to answer questions and make responses. It was clear that Fetterman's pauses were actually due to the teleprompter not keeping up with the theatrics.