Looking back at his recovery from a stroke during the 2022 U.S. Senate race, Sen. John Fetterman says in a new memoir that he should have withdrawn and described his debate performance as a “disaster” that fueled his growing depression.

In a lengthy excerpt from “Unfettered” that’s published by The Free Press , Fetterman recalled the day in May 2022 that his wife, Gisele, noticed symptoms on the way to an event and told a state trooper to instead drive them to Lancaster General Hospital.

“I am not entirely sure of the sequence, but during surgery, my heart stopped for several seconds,” he wrote. “I had this feeling of leaving; of everything inside me coming through my face, out a window, and into the sky. Then I survived.”

Fetterman describes being “effectively deaf” following the

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