Not a knock on Fetterman or even Allen here, but this is one of those comments which invites some obvious questions such as, "could you tell us which senators are not as on the ball as a recent stroke victim?"Just watched @SRuhle interview w/ John Fetterman. He was making jokes about crudite and magic diet pills, talking about substantive issues and referred to the number of counties in PA - 67 - repeatedly. I’m no doctor, but he’s more on the ball than a lot of senators I’ve covered.
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) September 1, 2022
Sure his point here was probably just, "obviously Fetterman seems fine," but it's well-known that the senate is filled with people who are not really on the ball. For some reason that's in the category of "things political journalists cover for instead of making clear by reporting on what those politicians say and do."