Posted on 04/25/2022 9:53:24 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Ten days after a Trafalgar Poll showed Kathy Barnette running an unusually close third in the Republican primary for U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, talk and support have been mounting for the TV commentator whom few — if any — had given a chance against two multimillionaire front-runners.
Last week, Sen. Joni Ernst issued a surprise endorsement for Barnette — one of two women in the six-candidate primary for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey and the only contender who is Black. Iowa Republican Ernst, vice-chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and a conservative stalwart, is considered a promising Republican office-holder.
Other major endorsements are expected to come Barnette's way before the primary May 17.
Trafalgar showed celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz, who recently secured Donald Trump's endorsement, leading among likely voters with 22.7%, followed by hedge fund executive David McCormick with 19.7%, and Barnette with 18.4%.
"And those two have each spent at least $18 million of their own money to become known, and I've spent $2 million — almost all of it from small donations," Barnette told Newsmax.
Trump's endorsement of Oz notwithstanding, McCormick, Barnette, and four other Republican hopefuls are all campaigning as strong supporters of the 45th president.
More than one Republican activist from the Keystone State who spoke to Newsmax believes that the increasingly negative media salvos McCormick and Oz have launched against one another have led primary voters to start considering a third candidate.
"They're two A-level candidates and they are beating the c**p out of each other," said one veteran GOP activist from Erie County who requested anonymity. "Both are conservatives, but flunk certain saliva tests. Barnette has attitude and evangelicals, plus a grassroots network that she has cobbled together through two years of hard work in the trenches."
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Pat Toomey ended up a massive dud, that’s for certain. But PA did elect Rick Santorum when he was still at the top of his game. Alas, nominating anyone other than Barnette as an “R”, especially the Wizard of Oz, is going to make Toomey look like Jesse Helms.
If Fetterman graduated Harvard, it just shows how debauched and degenerate the Ivy League schools have become. This imbecile has a “Black Power”/Marxist-Stalinist Sheep Fisting motto on his campaign materials.
I’ve always capitalized race, regardless. But the media now mostly puts ‘Whites’ in lower-case to deliberately diminish their humanity.
Many candidates have run in a bad year for one party only to come back later. Look at Jim Renacci in Ohio. He lost the Senate race in 2018 and is now on the brink of defeating the execrable incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine in the GOP primary, which will be tantamount to winning the general.
Dr. Oz is a wishy-washy RINO.
From Cathy Barnette, who’s running against him in the PA GOP primary
Just three years ago, Mehmet Oz was vocally in favor of Roe V Wade. The video doesn’t lie.
Trump endorsed Oz because he’s known him for years and he’s a celebrity. Sadly he’s a pro abortion globalist. Oz will be a big fat, beautiful loss for
Trump.
God willing, or should I say, ALLAH willing, Mehmet will be defeated.
Trump supports carpetbagger lefty Oz. Should we reject him too??
After seeing Carla Sands speak in person twice, and watching her debate, I choose her. She’s a formidable and impressive conservative candidate. She can defeat Shapiro.
Meant Fetterman.
If Sands was running a close third, as Kathy is, I would vote for her. MY favorite is Bartos, but he is also too far behind.
“Republican PA Senate Candidate Jeff Bartos Donated To Senate Democrats In The Past”
A lot of people in business play both sides, as Trump did. But I am voting for Barnette, anyway.
Kathy Barnette spoke at our Tea Party meeting tonight.
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