Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Pennsylvania Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman, has been in the spotlight more and more of late, and Rolling Stone featured her in a story:
I wrote about @giselefetterman and her evolution from reluctant political spouse, to key surrogate for her husband as he recovered from a stroke, to a political force unto herself:https://t.co/pI1x7OHrnx
— Kara Voght (@karavoght) October 15, 2022
There was another tweet, but that was deleted. Here’s the explanation:
I deleted a previous tweet sharing this story in which, in hindsight, I was imprecise with my word choices and what I intended to convey about Gisele’s role.
— Kara Voght (@karavoght) October 15, 2022
This was the tweet… any guesses as to why it was considered delete-worthy?
.@karavoght, why’d you delete this tweet?
Was it because you said the quiet part out loud? https://t.co/fW9pFfDycW pic.twitter.com/TJkIdmTn4Y
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 15, 2022
The “de facto candidate” eh? Interesting.
@karavoght, your line that you believe @giselefetterman is the “de facto candidate” is still in your article.
Why did you delete the tweet?
Was it because you gave the game away?
Are you going to update your article? Or are you going to leave this stunning admission in? pic.twitter.com/XOxjtG0Tcm
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 15, 2022
Would Pennsylvanians who decide to go Democrat next month be voting for John, or Gisele?
Notable. @karavoght deleted the “imprecise language” of “de facto candidate”… but it’s in her puff piece.
Oops. https://t.co/yknxFxwcvH
— Will Collier (@willcollier) October 15, 2022
Gisele Fetterman had replied to the now-deleted tweet:
Hey @karavoght, why did you delete the tweet to which she replied? https://t.co/UR0Yh6Kzk5
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 15, 2022
Fetterman certainly didn’t seem to mind the original tweet.
Aw, what happened to "de facto candidate" in the deleted tweet?
That seemed more accurate. https://t.co/jBkctu7vvg
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 15, 2022
Perhaps it was a little TOO accurate. But “journalism” or something.
“De fact candidate” still appears in the Rolling Stone story:
Then her husband had a stroke four days before the primary for the U.S. Senate. Suddenly, the reluctant political spouse became the de facto candidate. “I just had to survive, I just had to go,” she says of that time. Did she consider asking John to step out of the race? “It wasn’t my decision to make,” she says. “If you have the ability to make lives better, then it’s your duty to do so. And if he has the green light from every doctor, then I support that.”
To find herself center stage in one of cycle’s most-watched Senate races is one of the many times Gisele has found herself somewhere she never expected to be. The first was Queens, New York, as a frightened newcomer; later, the depressed steel town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, as the wife of a new mayor; and this year, as the key surrogate for her husband in his race for U.S. Senate.
The media seem determined to help get Fetterman (either one of them) across the midterm finish line.
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