Posted on 11/30/2021 1:53:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Well-known celebrity physician Mehmet Oz on Tuesday will declare his candidacy for the Senate in Pennsylvania, joining a competitive Republican primary field in the crucial battleground state, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.
The announcement by the 61-year old Oz – a cardiac surgeon, author and host of TV’s "Dr. Oz Show" – is widely expected Tuesday afternoon as he’s already been assembling a campaign staff in the 2022 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.
Oz is expected to sit down for his first national interview as a Senate candidate on Tuesday evening on Fox News’ "Hannity." Host Sean Hannity teased Oz's appearance at the end of his Monday night program, saying that he had a "huge announcement" and hinted "think midterm election."
Oz enters the GOP Senate primary with sizable name recognition – thanks to his long-running TV show. Oz grabbed national attention more than a decade ago when Oprah Winfrey introduced him to her program’s massive audience. He would also be able to self-fund his Senate bid by dipping into his estimated net worth of roughly $100 million.
The candidate had lived for years in New Jersey, but Oz registered to vote as a Republican last December in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County, using the home of his wife’s parents in the affluent Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn as his residence. According to election records, he’s voted twice by absentee ballot in Pennsylvania this year. Oz previously lived in the Keystone State decades ago, as he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and Wharton business school in 1986.
Oz is a political outsider and first-time candidate, and he will face scrutiny as little is known about his political beliefs.
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RE: as a Mohammedan, his belief system is fundamentally and irreconcilably inconsistent with American government.
The branch of Islam Dr. Oz follows ( Sufism) is not even Islamic in the sense most Muslims understand it. Heck, the Ayatollahs of Iran brand Sufism as heretical and are persecuting its practitioners.
RE: He lives in NJ for over 20 years and has been using in-laws Penn address to vote
That should be an issue. It’s called Carpetbagging.
That’s what gave New York the crooked Senator, Hillary Clinton, originally from Illinois, later Arkansas. She just decided one day that she wanted to be a New Yorker and the rest is history.
I heard him on Hannity earlier about a year ago. He made the statement that when you mix medicine and politics you get politics. Smart statement.
RFK lived in VA yet was a senator from NY.
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