Posted on 05/09/2022 10:47:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
With two weeks to go before the hotly contested Pennsylvania Republican Primary, a new poll shows that race is now a statistical 3-way tie between Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kathy Barnette, and Dave McCormick.
Kathy Barnette is surging due to her debate performance and Oz's heavy negatives with GOP voters pic.twitter.com/LxQLyVWuFK— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) May 9, 2022
According to the new Trafalgar Group poll, Trump endorsed Oz was at 24.5 percent, Barnette was at 23.2 percent and McCormick was at 21.6 percent in the race to be the nominee for the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey.
The survey was conducted between May 6 and May 8. The poll consisted of 1080 likely 2022 GOP primary voters, had a response rate of 1.44 percent and a margin of error of 2.99 percent.
Pundits theorized that Barnette is surging due to her recent debate performance and Oz was falling due to his heavy negatives with Republican voters. During the debate last Wednesday, Barnette spoke about her mother, who was only 11-years-old when she was raped by a man 10 years her senior. Barnette was the result of that rape, and her gratitude to her mother for carrying her and giving her life was clear.
"Whether this was a leak or whether this was a tactical operation we will soon figure out," she said in response to a question about the recent, unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
"One thing is clear, I am so very grateful that our nation is now having a very important conversation, and that is the most important conversation, that is about life. I am the byproduct of a rape," she said.
"My mother was 11-years-old when I was conceived. My father was 21. I was not just a lump of cells. As you can see, I'm still not just a lump of cells. My life has value. And that is one of the reasons why it was so very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race." Barnette said she had seen Oz, on "numerous occasions," including on podcast The Breakfast Club, where in 2019 he said that six weeks into a woman's pregnancy, a baby's heart is just "a cell" with "little electrical changes." Oz is a surgeon who has performed operations on infants.
Receipts: https://t.co/8gZSOCKgCW— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) December 7, 2021
"And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating," Oz said at the time. "I mean, they're electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating … If you were to say, starting when we can hear the heart, like when the heart's really doing something, that'd be different. That's not six weeks, though."
Barnette asked Oz if he had changed his position on that. Oz did not say whether he had or had not changed his view but said, "One of the toughest endorsements you could ever get is from your mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is an ordained minister. She wrote a lot of the pro-life literature in Montgomery County where we live, and she certainly understands that I'm pro-life."
"As a heart surgeon I've operated on small children few days old and witnessed the majesty of their hearts pounding blood even though it's ill because I'm operating not to those bodies. I would never think of harming that child or even nine months earlier because life starts at conception," Oz said.
Republican candidate Kathy Barnette receives an ovation after her closing statement. pic.twitter.com/kffNrocGhM— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 5, 2022
In her closing statements, Barnette said "I am you Pennsylvania and like you I believe this is the greatest country that has ever existed, but like you, I believe our country is in trouble. I believe that America that allowed me to claw my way out of dire poverty is about to come to a close."
"This time you do not have to hold your nose to vote for the lesser of two evils. I am in a statistical tie for first place, so voting for me is not throwing your vote away."
Here is @Kathy4Truth slamming BLM and Defund the Police in the summer of 2020 during the middle of the riots pic.twitter.com/3b7HOzQ96v— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) May 9, 2022
"Listen, go to my Facebook page by Kathy Barnett for Senate and you will see exactly what I'm doing today that I will amp up tomorrow after this race. You will see me in rooms full of black people changing their voter registration from Democrat to Republican, you will see me downtown and Chinatown. They are mine. You will see people ushering me in front of a roomful of Amish people with them introducing me as someone with their values."
"Not only do I have a grasp on our own base, but I can go into every nook and cranny and take the votes that we need in order to really be better than in the general election. So, let's go do this." Barnette received a massive round of applause after the remarks.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer.
You are right, not being from Penna I don’t know the guy, only know him from his TV show, which I didn’t watch all that much but like so many woman watching, I think of him as personable.
The candidate for which this thread is about, Kathy Barnette, seems like a good candidate.
wishing her luck.
The cruz campaign didn’t start that rumor — I beleive Rubio’s people did.
I prefer home grown to hollyweird. He talks good and maybe will work as a a conservative but my gut says he will like to get along and compromise to get things done.
good points. My comment about endorsement though, was if Kathy wins the primary which could happen. Then DJT can comfortably endorse her in the general without blowback that he said this or that about her just a few months back, etc.
Which is somethign like saying McCain was mroe dangerous than Romney.
How perfectly would she expose their real hatred of black women.
“Whether this was a leak or whether this was a tactical operation we will soon figure out,”
Oh…I do like this woman.she sees clearly.
Nice post. It is good to hear from Boots on the Ground. There are too many armchair political analysts running around who forget that “All Politics are Local.”
PA has a relatively large Republican base, but the middle matters. California has, in terms of raw numbers, an even larger base, but the middle is so small that neither the Republican base or the middle matters.
And I hail from Oregon, which arguably reached this position first. I can remember the last Republican elected governor: Vic Atiyeh, first elected in 1978, and Re-elected in 1982. 49 other states have elected Republicans since then. Besides Atiyeh. Since 1982, statewide Republican winners not named Hatfield and up for re-election worth voting for can, as I understand it, be counted on one finger.
Packwood was for all practical purposes a New Yorker, and Smith was a mild version of Romney, and kin to the Udals and another clan of Mormon Dems. He was Better than Romney and McCain, and perhaps a better man than Packwood, but that isn’t setting the bar low—that is digging a trench and burying it.
Trump needs to change his endorsement to Kathy and bury the Caliphate Candidate NOW.
Give them a choice of a Democrat or a Democrat and tehy’ll choose the Democrat every time.
The headline on the article at the top of the thread describes a candidate as “surging” in the polls — to 23%. Something is going to have to cha be dramatically in the next week for any of these candidates to come out of the primary as a serious contender.
And Bobby Kennedy before that.
You don’t know him. Trump knows him. Oz is the America First candidate. Strong on the border, energy indpendence, tough on crime, supports right to life, follows the science on Covid, wants to fire Fauci.
Based on what?
Gordon Smith was like Orrin Hatch and others. He was good conservative when he got there, but he got Potomac Fecer and drifted in a more liberal Establishemnt direction.
Oz strikes me as one of htose, and he’s already on the wrong side of too many things. Barnette doesn’t seem to be hte “Potomac Fever” type, and we need reinforcements for the solid members.
I’m glad to see this.
Would love to see her pull it out, based on the comments
concerning her.
In a three way race, you need one more vote than a third,
depending. I hope she can do it.
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I know his record, which Trump apparently doesn’t. Oz is no America First MAGA conservative. Barnette is.
“And Trump picked Oz over these other two for a reason. He is 20-0 for last week, is everyone here ready to join Lyn’ Ted in undercutting Trump?”
I would like to see Trump keep his winning streak going - but that’s not nearly as important as electing the best MAGA candidate.
If Kathy Barnette wins and breaks Trump’s winning streak, it won’t be because we undercut Trump, it will be because Trump underestimated her ability to win.
If that happens, I am sure Trump will be the first to admit it - and that he will quickly embrace her as the MAGA candidate that she is.
I would not be at all surprised if he claims her as a win - she may not be the one he endorsed, but she is a lot more MAGA than Oz - that’s a win if you ask me.
I bet Trump will say the same thing.
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