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I am not sure what exactly you are trying to get at here.

I am on the ground in PA, McCormic and Oz both have spent counless millions trying to secure the nomination, but both are sitting at around 20% with another few candidates garnering another 20% and 40% undecided.... The PA election is in less than 2 weeks.... That alone tells anyone paying attention that neither of these guys are great candidates.. even among REPUBLICAN VOTERS and spending countless millions blasting ads for the last 4 months or so, they are stuck in the low teens/high 20s of support.

You don’t need to be a genius to see, that’s a CRAPTASTIC place to be less than 2 weeks out from an election... Both the front runners are lousy candidates... as someone who’s lived in PA since 1986, I can tell you all about lousy GOP candidates.

Trump is free to endorse whoever he likes, but as someone who’s lived through Specter, Santorum and Toomey, I can say without hesitation, OZ (who he did endorce) or McCormick (the other of the 2 leading the polls) are duds.. its not a matter of whether or not they will disappoint, just a matter of WHEN it will happen.

Supporting Trump is not the same as blindly embracing every move he makes.. I was one of the earliest supporter of Trump on this site back in 2016, and I am still a huge supporter of MAGA, but OZ if he wins, will bite MAGA on the arse, sooner or later, take it to the bank. He’s a louse candidate, he was absolutely owned in the last debate by the third place candidate... she schooled him.

Oz is a carpet bagger, he has no support in PA, because he’s not from here, his support are the low information females who like him because he was on TV.. that’s it.. McCormic is the same deal, no real power base... Both have NOTHING in common with the typical GOP voter in PA.. they are NOT going to play well outside of the Philly area, and Fetterman, the almost fcertain democrat nominee, who BTW is at around 54 or 59% polling for his primary, with a field of about 5 competitors.. is an absolutely dominating presence.

Oz with his little constant TV smirk (Gary Condit reminding) won’t stand a chance once people see him and Fetterman on stage together, same is true of McCormic, he’s not as slimy as Oz, but he’s not going to connect or excite anyone...

SO if either of these are the nominee.. you have what is effectively a generic R vs a Strong D... the only way the Generic R wins is if the mood and sentiment is so strongly anti D that it doesn’t matter who the R is, just as long as they aren’t a D... and that may be what happens this fall...there is no doubt that a giant red wave is coming...

That said however, if there is a race where I would not be surprised to see the Dems buck that overall trend, this race would be it... If Oz or McCormick are the nominee, I would not be surprised at all if Fetterman wins.

I have been stating this for quite some time, I look at this race as a bellweather, if Oz or McCormic is the nominee and they win PA, then that is an indication that the democrat brand is utterly worthless this cycle and Republicans are going to win up and down the ballot in places no one is even remotely talking about.... If however they are the candidate and Fetterman wins, it means the GOP is still going to have a good night, but its not going to be the all out route it could be.

Time will tell how it goes, but I am still not sure what point you are trying to make. I defy OZ because I live here, and I will be voting here, and I can tell you, OZ is a slimeball.. Trump is free to endorse him, but his endorsement won’t change my mind one iota, and I supported Trump very early on in 16, and fully intend to vote for him in 2024 if he runs... that doesn’t mean I think every decision the man makes is perfect or right... this one is very very bad IMHO.