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Sen. John Fetterman dressed for a day on a basketball court Saturday to greet President Biden in Philadelphia.

Sen. John Fetterman dressed for a day on a basketball court Saturday to greet President Biden in Philadelphia — then stumbled over his words as he spoke to the media.

The Pennsylvania Democrat, in baggy shorts, sneakers, and a light blue hoodie, was unable to pronounce words such as “delegation” and “infrastructure” as he made a garbled one-minute statement after Biden toured the collapsed I-95 overpass that has snarled traffic throughout the northeast.

“This is a president that is committed to infructure,” said Fetterman, 53, who continues to grapple with the effects of a stroke he suffered last May as he campaigned for his Senate seat.

Biden, he said, “is here to commit to work with the governor and the delegadation to make sure that we get this fixed quick, fast, as well, too.”

The freshman senator also praised Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, calling it “the jewel, kind of a law, of the infra, infration, infriction bill that is gonna make sure that there’s bridges like this all across America getting rebuilt.”

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Sen. John Fetterman dressed for a day on a basketball court to greet President Biden in Philadelphia.
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FETTERMAN: "[Biden] is here to commit to work with the governor and the delegadation to make sure that we get this fixed quick, fast, as well, too. This is a president that is committed to infructure, yeah, and then on top of that the jewel kind of a law of the infration." pic.twitter.com/9kBdp9MKK7

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Biden — dressed, like most of the officials in attendance, in suit and tie — did not visibly react to Fetterman’s painful phrasing.

“A real show of farce,” Charlotte A snarked on Twitter.

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Fetterman then stumbled over his words as he spoke to the media who continues to grapple with the effects of a stroke he suffered last May as he campaigned for his Senate seat.
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Sen. John Fetterman
Fetterman, in baggy shorts, sneakers, and a light blue hoodie, made a garbled one-minute statement after Biden toured the collapsed I-95 overpass that has snarled traffic throughout the northeast.
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On Wednesday, Fetterman struggled to discuss the accident during a meeting of the Senate Environment Committee after committee chairman Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del) invited him to speak.

“Uh no, I – uh, would just, um, really like to, you know — the 95, 95, 95. You know?” Fetterman began, later calling I-95 a “major atery” for the nation.

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