Posted on 05/09/2022 8:19:19 PM PDT by ViLaLuz
With two weeks to go before the hotly contested Pennsylvania Republican Primary, a new poll shows that race is now a statistical 3-way tie between Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kathy Barnette, and Dave McCormick.
According to the new Trafalgar Group poll, Trump endorsed Oz was at 24.5 percent, Barnette was at 23.2 percent and McCormick was at 21.6 percent in the race to be the nominee for the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey.
The survey was conducted between May 6 and May 8. The poll consisted of 1080 likely 2022 GOP primary voters, had a response rate of 1.44 percent and a margin of error of 2.99 percent.
Pundits theorized that Barnette is surging due to her recent debate performance and Oz was falling due to his heavy negatives with Republican voters.
During the debate last Wednesday, Barnette spoke about her mother, who was only 11-years-old when she was raped by a man 10 years her senior. Barnette was the result of that rape, and her gratitude to her mother for carrying her and giving her life was clear.
"Whether this was a leak or whether this was a tactical operation we will soon figure out," she said in response to a question about the recent, unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
"One thing is clear, I am so very grateful that our nation is now having a very important conversation, and that is the most important conversation, that is about life. I am the byproduct of a rape," she said.
"My mother was 11-years-old when I was conceived. My father was 21. I was not just a lump of cells. As you can see, I'm still not just a lump of cells. My life has value. And that is one of the reasons why it was so very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race."
Barnette said she had seen Oz, on "numerous occasions," including on podcast The Breakfast Club, where in 2019 he said that six weeks into a woman's pregnancy, a baby's heart is just "a cell" with "little electrical changes." Oz is a surgeon who has performed operations on infants.
"And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating," Oz said at the time. "I mean, they're electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating … If you were to say, starting when we can hear the heart, like when the heart's really doing something, that'd be different. That's not six weeks, though."
Barnette asked Oz if he had changed his position on that. Oz did not say whether he had or had not changed his view but said, "One of the toughest endorsements you could ever get is from your mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is an ordained minister. She wrote a lot of the pro-life literature in Montgomery County where we live, and she certainly understands that I'm pro-life."
"As a heart surgeon I've operated on small children few days old and witnessed the majesty of their hearts pounding blood even though it's ill because I'm operating not to those bodies. I would never think of harming that child or even nine months earlier because life starts at conception," Oz said.
In her closing statements, Barnette said "I am you Pennsylvania and like you I believe this is the greatest country that has ever existed, but like you, I believe our country is in trouble. I believe that America that allowed me to claw my way out of dire poverty is about to come to a close."
"This time you do not have to hold your nose to vote for the lesser of two evils. I am in a statistical tie for first place, so voting for me is not throwing your vote away."
"Listen, go to my Facebook page by Kathy Barnett for Senate and you will see exactly what I'm doing today that I will amp up tomorrow after this race. You will see me in rooms full of black people changing their voter registration from Democrat to Republican, you will see me downtown and Chinatown. They are mine. You will see people ushering me in front of a roomful of Amish people with them introducing me as someone with their values."
"Not only do I have a grasp on our own base, but I can go into every nook and cranny and take the votes that we need in order to really be better than in the general election. So, let's go do this." Barnette received a massive round of applause after the remarks.
Awesome.
I hope she wins.
Dr. Oz can back to his tv show.
it’s extremely close in these polls.
An articulate woman, who can speak clearly and solidly on the issues, will make for a great general election campaigner.
And she is black, so she is immune to several democrat slurs
Go Kathy Go!
Ozzy go home.
Well, yes, considering that, this would throw the liberals for a loop. Because they then will have to say that a black woman is supposed to be a Democrat, etc. etc.
I recall how silly some Democrats looked a few years ago, when the “war on women” was their campaign slogan.
I recall some elections in which a Republican woman was running against a Democrat man. But with their war on women, Democrats urged voters to elect a man against a Republican woman, because of the alleged Republican war on women.
Good I hope she wins!
Wishing her good luck.
She is Really, Really pro-life.
She would be Pennsylvania’s first black governor.
She’s an honorable, principled woman who will fight for the American family as we knew it before all this perverted crap was shoved down our throats.
I don’t picture Oz doing that.
Trump blew it with this endorsement just like he did with Romney.
I hope so too. I’m not in PA, but my husband was born and raised there and loves it. Neither of us can stand the carpetbagger Oz.
“My mother-in-law is an ordained minister.”
I have no idea who this guy is, but like Lindsey Grahamnesty is a Hannity favorite, ultimately it doesn’t matter what I think because I don’t vote in that state, but I don’t need to hear any more.
New Jersey? Turkey?
Might want to ask Clarence Thomas about that. She may be black but she’s the wrong kind of black.
That doesn't work for black republicans of either gender.
Hasnt stopped them before
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