I agree Oz was not a great candidate, but Fetterman was a horrible candidate... beyond being brain dead, his policy positions were some of the most radical in the country this year.
Difference is - republicans care about candidate quality.
Democrats only care if you keep to their cult positions.. Hobbs did black face, and held slave auctions in HS... and that took the UK press to break the story, but almost nothing in AZ or nationally about it. But Hobbs is a 100% reliable vote for the dems, so they dont care about anything else.
Democrats vote for Party, period. If Hitler ran as a Democrat, they’d vote for him.
Difference is, PA the D’s have a 600k plus vote registration advantage, and OZ was an absolute lousy and off brand, carpetbagger candidate, with absolutely no established political support to draw from in the state, was not remotely conservative, let alone MAGA and ran a poor campaign to boot.
Oz never offered conservative or MAGA voters a reason to be excited for him.. throughout this entire campaign season, I could not find anyone, and I do mean ANYONE on the ground who had an ounce of excitement for OZ anywhere... Republican voters, MAGA voters, Independents, none... general consensus of everyone I talked to was this was a crap election, with crap candidates, so I guess I’ll vote for OZ because he’s at least not Fetterman. That, ain’t gonna ever get it done in PA as an R for statewide office.
No one should be surprised by this result, if anything OZ got a gift with Fetterman’s stroke, because without it he wouldn’t have even been within 5 points.
You want to win in PA as a republican, you need to absolutely OWN the T, you can’t do that if you’ve advocated for gun control, or trans kids, part of the WEF, or had to pay out millions because you sold fake fat pills to folks, etc etc. Oz was a con man.. he offered nothing to cause Democrat voters to cross over, nothing to excite the base, and certainly nothing to get the disenfranchised MAGA voters who would crawl over glass to vote for Trump to show up for him.
This played out pretty much how it was going to play out. The notion here and elsewhere that Fetterman would be abandoned due to his health, was foolish. The entire argument offered here by everyone who challenged my statements about this race always boiled down to “at least he’s not Fetterman”... while those same people failed to recognize the exact same argument can be presented by the other side to their supporters “well, at least he’s not OZ”.
IF that’s your campaign, and that pretty much was the campaign, no one should be shocked that the side with the HUGE registration advantage, and running a candidate that has an in state political base to draw from won.
This wasn’t a policy election, it wasn’t even a personality election, it was simply a tribal/orthodoxy election, because literally NOTHING was ever offered by anyone to make it anything else.. and when that’s your election in PA, D is going to win every time.