Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) told NBC News that he still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May.

But he added that his recovery “changes everything” and that it would not affect his ability to serve in the Senate.

Said Fetterman: “I don’t think it’s going to have an impact. I feel like I’m gonna get better and better — every day. And by January, I’m going to be, you know, much better. And Dr. Oz is still going to be a fraud.”

President Biden will host a fundraiser with Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman in Philadelphia next week, CNBC reports.

New York Magazine: “In the final weeks, Fetterman is banking on the hope that voters will see in his vulnerability a new way to appreciate his strength. In our conversation, he was lucid and animated, eloquent about the stakes of the race and incensed about the nasty tenor of Oz’s campaign. There were also moments in which his syntax got snarled or he had trouble getting a word out.”

Said Fetterman: “I really can’t hide it even if I wanted to.”

“In what continues to be an incredibly puzzling campaign, Dr. Mehmet Oz attended a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser hosted by sex pest Matt Gaetz’s in-laws on Thursday night at the Lyon Air Museum and stood in front of one of Adolf Hitler’s cars, which made it into the background of attendees’ photos,” Jezebel reports.

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) raised $22 million in the third quarter, CNN reports.

That far surpassed rival Mehmet Oz (R), who raised $17 million — including a $7 million loan to his campaign — over the same period.

“In his campaign for a crucial U.S. Senate seat, Democrat John Fetterman takes credit for reinventing Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor’s office, transforming it from a political pit stop into a ‘bully pulpit‘ from which he’s advanced progressive causes,” the AP reports.

“Records from Fetterman’s four years in office, however, offer a different portrait of his time in the $179,000-a-year elected job. They show Fetterman typically kept a light work schedule and was often absent from state business, including presiding over the state Senate, which is one of his chief duties.”

A new Monmouth poll in Pennsylvania finds 48% of voters will either definitely or probably vote for John Fetterman (D) in the U.S. Senate race, while 43% of voters will either definitely or probably vote for Mehmet Oz (R).

Said pollster Patrick Murray: “Fetterman maintains an edge as his support is starting to solidify. Oz’s higher negatives are driven in large part by the sense that that he is out of touch with most Pennsylvanians.”

Cook Political Report: “In conversations with several GOP strategists and lawmakers — who a month and a half ago had begun to put the Keystone State in the loss column — this has emerged as a margin-of-error race that they once again see winnable. Republicans and Democrats alike admit the race has tightened and that Pennsylvania could be the tipping point state for the Senate majority.”

“The super PAC affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition is beginning a significant ad buy in Pennsylvania that aims to draw attention to a 2013 incident in which John Fetterman, now the Democratic nominee for Senate, moved to detain an unarmed Black jogger,” the New York Times reports.

“The $1.5 million buy includes two ads on the subject aimed predominantly at the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh markets. They will run on broadcast television and are intended to reach Black voters.”

Mehmet Oz’s (R) Senate campaign in Pennsylvania raised $17.2 million between July and September — including $7 million from Oz’s own money — Axios reports.

“These are big numbers and reflect a high-stakes race that may be narrowing by the minute.”

A new USA Today/Suffolk poll in Pennsylvania shows John Fetterman (D) is hanging on to a six percentage-point lead over Mehmet Oz (R) in the nation’s most closely watched Senate race, 46% to 40%.

In the contest for governor, Josh Shapiro (D) is pulling away from Doug Mastriano (R), 48% to 37%.

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) put out a video comparing opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) to Nick Riviera, the incompetent doctor from The Simpsons.

A new Emerson College/The Hill survey in Pennsylvania finds John Fetterman (D) with a two point lead over Mehmet Oz (R), 45% to 43% in the race for US Senate.

In the race for governor, Josh Shapiro (D) leads Doug Mastriano by 10 points, 51% to 41%.

Mehmet Oz (R) slammed rival John Fetterman’s choice of clothing — he regularly wears a hoodie on the campaign trail — and said he was “stunned by” the “costume” and believes it contains a “deeper message.”

Said Oz: “When he dresses like that, it’s not an accident. He’s kicking authority in the balls. He’s saying, ‘I’m the man. I’ll show those guys who’s boss.'”

Sometimes it seems like Oz is campaigning for Fetterman.

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz (R) went after his opponent, John Fetterman (D), for purchasing his home for $1 from his family, saying “Only in John Fetterman’s world can you go house hunting and get a home for $1.”

It sounded like a good attack on Fetterman’s blue-collar image, though Fetterman has long admitted that his parents supported him well into adulthood.

But NBC News quickly found that Oz’s mother-in-law, Emily Lemole, also bought her home for $1.

Daily Beast: “If Pennsylvania senatorial hopeful and former TV doctor Mehmet Oz wants his supporters to know one thing, it’s that he’s a bad fundraiser who has always been losing to his opponent…”

“The Oz campaign has sent 23 fundraising emails since last Monday alone. Every one of them has bad news, saying directly or on a linked donations page that Oz is either missing fundraising goals, trailing Democratic opponent John Fetterman in dollars raised, or losing in the polls.”

A new Monmouth poll in Pennsylvania finds John Fetterman (D) leading Mehmet Oz in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 39%.

Key finding: Fetterman has a positive personal rating of 47% favorable to 42% unfavorable. Oz has a net negative personal rating of 36% favorable to 52% unfavorable.