Voters in Pennsylvania decided critical primary races, including a Republican Senate contest that featured Mehmet Oz, Dave McCormick and Kathy Barnette.
But Fetterman's Senate bid took a turn over the weekend, when his campaign announced that the candidate suffered a stroke and was in the hospital. Fetterman, who recently suffered a stroke that took him off the campaign trail, was the heavy favorite in the Democratic contest. He is resting at the hospital after the procedure, which lasted more than two-and-a-half hours, according to his campaign. Fetterman said in a statement that he expects to fully recover, though the illness kept him off the trail in the final days of the primary. He and the eventual Republican nominee will face off in a general election that could play a decisive role in which party controls the U.S. Senate after the midterms. Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman will win the state's Democratic Senate primary race, while the winner of the hyper-competitive Republican Senate primary is too early to call, NBC News projected Tuesday.
Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks with an attendee at a Republican leadership forum at Newtown Athletic Club on May 11, 2022 in Newtown, Pa. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/ ...
Oz, McCormick, and Barnette all pledged their allegiance to Trump, but the Republican establishment backed McCormick largely because it believed he had the best chance to win the general election. Sean Hannity dutifully lined up behind Oz, giving him plenty of airtime while attacking Barnette, even bashing her for marching on Jan. 6, something he and Fox News as a whole have spent the past year-plus trying to cast as no big deal. The circus-like nature of the race made for an amusing split throughout conservative media and within Trump’s circle. He and McCormick both came under fire for past positions that don’t jibe with the modern Republican Party — Oz supported gun control measures, for example, and McCormick supported inclusivity at his hedge fund — and neither have lived in Pennsylvania for very long. Barnette’s rise drew intense scrutiny from the media, which has reported on her long history of anti-gay, anti-Muslim comments, as well as her presence in Washington, D.C., last Jan. 6. Oz and McCormick had been battling for months, but neither candidate seemed to capture the hearts and minds of Pennsylvania’s voters, with Oz even drawing boos as Trump tried to promote him at a rally earlier this month.
Celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz's bid to become the next Republican senator from Pennsylvania is in jeopardy.
Tonight was a critical test of the former President Trump's ability to back winners… Dr Oz arrived at the venue and did a thumbs up to us and said he was feeling good. He said victory would be his in the end. He has been a vocal supporter of Mr Trump's baseless claim that he won the 2020 presidential election He will face Democrat Cheri Beasley, the first black woman to serve as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The race is expected to be competitive The midterms fall halfway through a president's term in office.
Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had 31.3% of the vote to McCormick's 31.1%, with 95% of the votes counted, according to the ...
County officials have pleaded with state lawmakers to allow them to begin processing mail-in ballots earlier as Florida and other states do, but they have refused. “Unfortunately, we’re not going to have resolution tonight, but we can see the path ahead. Candidates can also request a recount through the courts. Article content Article content Article content
Celebrity physician, who is endorsed by Trump, is currently behind in the Pennsylvania senate primary, but the race remains too close too call.
However, in North Carolina, Republicans ousted Trump’s candidate for Senate – Madison Cawthorn, the scandal-plagued first-term congressman. While the Oz race is still too close too call, Pennsylvania Republicans handedly nominated Trump’s choice for governor – Doug Mastriano – an election denier who was outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Oz, who is endorsed by Donald Trump, is currently trailing McCormick, but the race remains too close too call. Whoever wins the Republican primary for Senate will be running against John Fetterman, the state lieutenant governor. It’s good for the party. Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democratic congressman currently representing the 18th district of New York, has purportedly angered his colleagues by immediately jumping into the primary race for a newly drawn district. “It’s good for the country. It has only been invoked once in the organization’s history, in response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. For senator Paul to delay Ukraine funding for purely political motives is to only strengthen Putin’s hand.” Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger called Cawthorn’s loss “good for the country.” And my commitment to Nato and Article 5 is ironclad.” Oz is endorsed by Donald Trump. John Fetterman won the Democratic primary.
Vote counting resumed Wednesday morning in Pennsylvania's high stakes GOP Senate primary, with Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick virtually deadlocked.
Either McCormick or Oz will face off against Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who easily won the Democratic nomination, in the fight to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey in a crucial battleground state. But the margin is currently well within the 0.5% that triggers an automatic recount mandated by the state’s top election official. We are making a ferocious charge." The race is one of a handful across the country that will likely decide if Republicans win back the Senate majority in November’s midterm elections. PHILADELPHIA — Vote counting resumed Wednesday morning in Pennsylvania’s high stakes and extremely combustible and expensive GOP Senate primary, with Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick virtually deadlocked. Vote counting far from over as Trump-backed Dr. Oz and Dave McCormick deadlocked in PA GOP Senate primary
Former President Donald Trump, in a series of posts on his Truth Social platform Wednesday morning, encouraged Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to ...
in the Pennsylvania Senate race, for siphoning off votes from Oz in the primary. "Remember, all three candidates in Pennsylvania were 'Ultra' MAGA!" Trump said Wednesday, presumably referring to the Senate primary between Oz, McCormick and Barnette. As of Wednesday afternoon, CNN had not projected a winner
Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, right, waves in front of his wife, Lisa, while speaking at a primary night election gathering ...
He held the office until he became lieutenant governor in 2019 after running on a ticket with Gov. Tom Wolf. “He didn’t even want to go to the hospital, he didn’t want to miss the events we had planned. He voted by emergency absentee ballot and his wife, Gisele, delivered a victory speech on his behalf. But I insisted and as usual, I was right, and I’m so glad I made him go.” Shapiro has made protecting the right to vote and making it easier to vote major planks in his platform, while Mastriano denies that Biden won the 2020 election and has made false claims about the 2020 results. Oz, who’s hosted “The Dr. Oz Show” since 2009, was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Trump held a rally for Oz in Greensburg, Pa., and recorded robocalls for his campaign.
Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for Pennsylvania's hotly ...
Oz also was attacked repeatedly for his dual citizenship in Turkey, and he accused McCormick of making “bigoted attacks.” If elected, Oz would be the nation’s first Muslim senator, although he has not campaigned on that milestone. Oz and McCormick had avoided repeating Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from him in the battleground state. Oz and McCormick emerged at their election night watch parties after midnight to say they would have to wait for vote-counting to resume Wednesday to determine a winner, with each saying he was confident of victory. Oz, best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show,” has battled misgivings among conservative groups about his positions on guns, abortion and other core conservative issues. The Associated Press has not called the race. The contest was within a couple thousand votes overnight, out of more than 1.2 million cast.
Despite Donald Trump's the endorsement, the celebrity-doctor-turned Republican Senate hopeful was in a virtual dead heat with Dave McCormick.
To Trump he said, “I’ll make you proud.” “When Sean punches, he punches through walls.” Support of that false narrative has been a litmus test for many Trump supporters. He likely didn’t change any of those Pennsylvanians’ minds when he refused last week to say the 2020 election was rigged. Out of 1.1 million Republican votes cast in the primary, Oz and McCormick remain separated by just 1477 votes, per Fox News. Oz is a longtime resident of New Jersey, but according to the Associated Press, he registered to his in-law’s address in the Philadelphia suburbs to vote by absentee last year, which qualified him to run the in the state this year.
But according to Donald Trump? The country's foremost expert in saying, “screw the law,” and declaring victory before all the votes are accounted for? Dr. Oz ...
Earlier this month, it was revealed that John Eastman, the conservative lawyer and Trump’s coconspirator in trying to steal the election, had literally told a Pennsylvania state lawmaker to throw out absentee ballots and recount the votes without them in order to “provide some cover” for the Pennsylvania legislature to appoint its own Trump-supporting electors. On the other hand, the margin could widen, negating the need for a recount, given that there are still thousands of mail-in ballots that need to be counted. Get Smart America!” The ex-president endorsed Oz last month, and the two men proceeded to attack McCormick for being a “liberal Wall Street Republican” and not MAGA enough. It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday morning. (Team McCormick, seemingly attempting to prove the candidate’s MAGA bona fides, reportedly tried to make the case that Oz wasn’t electable because of his Turkish heritage and dual citizenship.) As of Wednesday afternoon, the Pennsylvania GOP Senate race remained too close to call for either Mehmet Oz or Dave McCormick. While the celebrity-doctor-slash- snake-oil-salesman is narrowly beating the former hedge fund executive, the odds of a recount look high given the state law that says that one must automatically occur if the margin of victory between the candidates is 0.5 points or less.
The race between Mehmet Oz and David McCormick has not been called and will likely head toward an automatic recount.
The final November matchup for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat has yet to be determined. On his social-media platform Truth Social, he called on Oz to claim victory before the results have been determined, echoing his own behavior following the 2020 presidential election. Though an official winner has yet to be declared, Donald Trump is pushing for Oz, whom he endorsed, to follow his political playbook.
With almost all the results now in from Tuesday's key primary elections, Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to baselessly suggest mail-in ballots were ...
If he's elected in November, Mr Mastriano has pledged to end the no-excuse vote by mail, a process that hundreds of thousands used in this week's primary. Doug Mastriano was deeply involved in Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the last election. And if the result ends with a margin of less than 0.5 points, as currently seems likely, an automatic recount will be triggered. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. North Carolina Republicans threw out the far-right congressman Madison Cawthorn in his primary. Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Former President Donald Trump blasted the state’s elections procedures on social media, even though there are no indications of any wrongdoing with those ballots other than a printing error that was slowing the tally in one county
The celebrity doctor said that Hannity has been "giving me advice" in "late-night conversations"
Your friendship means a great deal to me." "I think he is probably the greatest guy ever, it is nothing personal, but I think it was a mistake." He added: "10 p.m.-er has a cork up her nose at this. "For some reason, the 10 p.m.-er has a real hate-on for Oz," Levin said last Friday. "10 p.m.-er is not a Pennsylvanian. But some people, because they have a camera in their face, actually think they know what's best for you without actually inquiring into it." The top two vote-getters now look to an automatic recount. In recent weeks, Fox News host Laura Ingraham has repeatedly castigated the celebrity doctor.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Mehmet Oz should declare victory over opponent Dave McCormick in the too-close-to-call Pennsylvania GOP ...
But Trump has never conceded that defeat, instead promulgating baseless theories that the election was stolen from him in Pennsylvania and a handful of other key swing states. The then-president went on to lose Pennsylvania, and the election, as more votes were counted over the subsequent days. Thousands of votes and mail-in ballots have yet to be counted — and the closeness of the race signals a potential recount — making Trump’s Wednesday morning declaration premature.
The former president urged his preferred candidate to follow his 2020 playbook by prematurely declaring victory and suggesting without any evidence that ...
Trump endorsed the celebrity doctor in April, saying at the time he had "known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show. As with the 2020 presidential election, Trump made a baseless accusation of fraud unfolding in Pennsylvania's GOP primary. Oz expressed a similar sentiment but added, "When all the votes are counted, we will win," according to CNN, and vowed to Trump: "I will make you proud." Trump Tells Dr. Oz to Declare Victory in Pennsylvania's GOP Senate Primary That's Too Close to Call "Dr. Oz should declare victory," Trump wrote on his new social media platform Truth Social, echoing his own statement in the 2020 presidential election when he said, "Frankly, we did win," before the vote counting was complete. By Thursday morning, Oz had 416,785 votes and McCormick had 415,544 of 1.3 million votes counted, a difference of about 0.1 percent, which is close enough to trigger a statewide recount, the AP reports.