Posted on 08/18/2022 10:04:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who earned former President Donald Trump’s primary-race endorsement in April, is going down in flames according to a new GOP poll.
Republican-affiliated Public Opinion Strategies reports that surgeon-turned-TV-host Dr. Oz trails Democrat John Fetterman by nearly 20 points!
Trump gave Oz his “complete and total endorsement” before the wide-open GOP primary of six candidates, a move that probably sealed the deal with Pennsylvania Republicans.
The doc won in a squeaker, barely beating out second-place finisher David McCormick, 31.2% to 31.1%.
The former president praised Oz’s positions on abortion, crime, the Second Amendment, border security, the military, education, energy independence, and election fraud. Those are all well and good, but before lending an endorsement, someone in Trump’s position first needs to determine whether the recipient is at all likely to win the general election.
In Dr. Oz’s case, right now that’s a big, fat NO.
Let’s face it: He is not a good candidate.
After winning his primary, Oz went AWOL.
While Fetterman was literally incapacitated by a stroke, the doc failed to capitalize on a prime opportunity to define himself and his prone opponent:
Recent reporting suggests that Oz might not have taken advantage of those several weeks where Fetterman was sidelined, a significant span of time during a race that could be integral to party control of the Senate.
Puck is reporting that the former TV personality was in Palm Beach, Florida, until June 9 at least, not holding his first post-primary event until June 10. Oz reportedly also traveled to Ireland to visit family at the end of June and did not return until early July.
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At this point, whining about it further will probably cost us PA and the Senate and give us a grotesque stroked-out Adams Family silver spooned Marxist.
Don’t be that guy.
And you will have Fetterman as a Senator! List his negative points!
He IS DOWN BY 15!!! That is not within any margin of error that I’ve ever heard of!
Republicans believe too many polls. That’s the problem.
They see a poll. They panic. They give up.
That’s why the Dems put out these polls.
People in Pennsylvania must be voting for this wonderful economy and gas prices. /s
Fools
The Republican party is Pennsylvania is a joke. They wouldn’t know a good candidate from a moron. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania all of my life. It’s been so heavily a Democrat for so long, Republicans have virtually given up winning anything.
So, they made no effort to help identify candidates for these seats.
Fetterman is an absolute flake. A hulking 6 foot nine bozo who left Braddock, where he was mayor, a disaster. Their one hospital just closed.
Man, I wish Trump had back Barnette instead, since she would be tearing up decrepit Fetterman right now. But alas, Sean Hannity stuck an ax in her back...hope Trump and Oz's friend Melania are happy now.
Sorry. McCormack would have been Minion II.
Hard to do that from New Jersey or while on permanent vacation.
1. Oz is better than McCormack.
2. Oz is stronger than Barnette who would have been in the low 30s by now.
3. There are no other candidates right now. Oz is the candidate.
4. Conservatives need to stop whining and start campaigning.
Barnette was another Sharron Angle/Sarah Palin/Christine O’Donnell waiting to happen! Btw this poll is a GOPe poll and is heavily biased against both Trump Republicans. Doug is getting destroyed in this poll as well...is he a bad candidate? Oz is campaigning throughout the state and saying the right things! The fact is that neither candidate is getting financial support from the RNC...neither would Barnette. Soros is dumping tons of money into this state as well.
The RNC wants to lose so they can blame it on MAGA.
Finally someone who gets it!!!
You are correct, but that’s not going to fly much longer. We are purging them one by one and in a few cycles, the GOPe will either all be Dems or no longer politically relevant!
I’m sure OZ would vote with the Dems more than the R’s.
Barnette would be winning right now if she was the candidate. But nooo...Trump and Melania just had to stick their noses into Pennsylvania and back the carpetbagger Muslim.
So how'd that work out?
Oz was a terrible Trump endorsement because he’s a liberal. But with that said, if he can’t beat a 6-9 pothead lardass, who almost died of a stroke a few months ago, who was supported by his parents till he was 45 years old, is more socialist than Bernie Sanders, who is anti-2nd amendment but chased a black guy down the street with a shotgun, PA has fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
Which is why I say that even if things don’t go our way in November we cannot let the GOPe win. This is a civil war within the GOP. And it may take a few more election cycles to prevail.
I’d say Pennsylvania was already gone when they hired Rachel Levine.
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