What cost him is the fact that there are 500,000 more registered Dems AND they’re good at getting out the vote.
Its over 600k, but that’s no excuse, that’s the playing field and it was known from the start.
OZ never had a prayer to win PA statewide as an R... he’s just a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE AND OFF BRAND CADIDATE.
To win as an R in PA, you better not just win the T, but run it up huge... Oz never had a prayer of doing that. Oz is not Trump... Oz is not someone who inspires.. he’s a con man and a fraud, a slick used car salesman trying to convince you that “this little beauty only was driving by a grandma to and from church.”
He had zero connection to the electorate, and zero political base here to draw from. You want to win in PA as an R you better be able to walk into a coal mine, or a factory or and be able to connect with the folks there... OZ never had a prayer, he is just completely off brand... He’s never had a narrative or life that was going to connect where it needed to. He’s not some small town kid who made good.. he’s never spent a day knowing the struggles of the working class, and it shows.
Both Fetterman and Oz came from privilege and there is nothing wrong with that, but when you aren’t from here, never done a hard days labor in your life, and show up in your $2000 Italian loafers and talk about your crudite’ you ain’t gonna connect with an electorate that you need to inspire and motivate and excite. Fetterman equally came from privilege, but he also spent decades in PA, in particular in a place in PA that Oz wouldn’t be caught dead in.. and if Oz did by some accident wind up in Braddock he’d lock his doors and floor it to get out as fast as possible.
He was just horribly, horribly off brand to have any shot at a statewide R win. He spent more money on his primary than both parties spent in the last senate general election to get 31% of the primary vote.. then spent over $100 Million dollars trying to claim he’s “one of us”... He was a flat out lousy and off brand candidate.
Fetterman’s stroke is the only reason Oz didn’t lose by 6-8 points, had he been able to properly campaign, OZ wouldn’t have had a prayer being inside of 5 points when all was said and done.
The only shot OZ ever had was if the election was purely a repudiation of the D brand, in which case even a ham sandwich would win as long as it had an R... that’ not how this election played out and the carpetbagger fraud got sent packing.
Run a crap candidate, get a crap result.
And for all the people who attacked me during this campaign for speaking the truth, that you didn’t want to hear, and thought Oz was a GREAT candidate... well, now he’s free to move to your state you can try to elect him next cycle... I’m sure he’ll happily buy a house there and try to tell you how well he understands you too.