Because then-Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman did not look well on the campaign trail after suffering a stroke in May shortly before the primary, his wife Gisele often spoke on his behalf, whether it was to introduce him at an event or answer questions during interviews and other public speaking engagements where she appeared to relish taking the lead.
Her penchant for doing so sparked questions and concerns at the time from John Fetterman’s critics and even some in the mainstream press, all of who wondered just who was running the show during the campaign and, more concerningly if Pennsylvanians could expect more of the same in the event Fetterman was elected.
Well, John Fetterman is now Senator-elect, having defeated GOP nominee Mehmet Oz last Tuesday. Predictably, on Fetterman’s first day of orientation in Washington, D.C., this happened:
Notice anything off in that photo? Yeah, she appears more prominently in the photo than he does – and he’s also partially cropped out of the picture, as though he was an afterthought.
Some helped her out by fine-tuning the cropping to better meet her standards: