> Fetterman is going to handily win this race, anyone telling you otherwise is either utterly ignorant of PA politics, or flat out lying to you. <
I gotta agree. Barnett was unpolished. But she was absolutely the candidate to back. Unfortunately Trump, Hannity, etc. decided to go with the Hollywood carpetbagger Oz.
This seat is probably lost. And given how hard it is to oust an incumbent, if Fetterman regains his health he’ll be in the Senate for a long time.
I’m not saying stay home. Oz is better than Fetterman. My point instead is that Trump made a really bad endorsement here. Will he learn from this? I hope so.
Barnett was the MAGA candidate... and once she was a threat you saw what the establishment did to her, with lies and attacks... that tells you all you need to know about the PA GOP right there.
The mounted a more vicious campaign in the last week of the primary to destroy her than they have EVER launched against ANY DEMOCRAT in my entire time living here.
Oz is a Joke.. will play likely above average in the NJ Border/Philly area, and absolutely crater everywhere else... His “Guns are a health care issue” statement alone makes him a non starter to most PA rural voters, let alone his public support of Trandgender Kids and other things... He’s a focus group driven fraud and won’t sell worth a damn out in the rural parts of the state, especially when compared to Fetterman.
Fetterman, like it or not, believes what he says, and has a resume to back it up. Oz, says what he is told by advisors people want to hear, and it doesn’t sell. No quicker way to failure in rural areas than being inauthentic and he’s just flat out inauthentic as hell... utterly off brand, and going to lose handily.
The ONLY way OZ wins is if Biden has damaged the Democratic brand so badly that a ham sandwich would win as long as it has an R by its name. Because voters are going to have to completely ignore the actual candidates completely for Oz to win PA and vote based on something else.
Less than 3 months left until folks vote, we will see then, but I don’t see any way OZ ends even close when its all said and done, even with all the wind at the Republicans backs.