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Former Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette called on her base to support the party’s nominee, Mehmet Oz, in his campaign to defeat Democrat candidate John Fetterman. “First, I hear you on the principles but let’s cut to the chase in politics here,” talk radio host David Webb said. “Are you working and encouraging your base, your substantial base, which could be the difference between a Republican loss in Pennsylvania and a Republican win?” “Absolutely. And this is not new. This is something I’ve been doing for some time now,” Barnette told Webb. “I have made it very clear,...

Conservative commentator Kathy Barnette, who came in third in Pennsylvania's Senate Republican primary, is "having discussions" with Dr. Mehmet Oz's team about endorsing her former rival, she told the Washington Examiner in an interview Tuesday. For much of the campaign, the Pennsylvania GOP primary was centered on Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and businessman Dave McCormick. The two nearly tied when all the votes were counted, with Oz coming out on top by less than 1,000 votes. Barnette began surging in the polls during the final days of the race, as the battle between Oz and...

Failed GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette took to Twitter to blame Fox News host Sean Hannity for her primary election loss. “Never forget what Sean Hannity did in this race,” she said in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday. “Almost single handedly Sean Hannity sowed deep seeds of disinformation, flat out lies every night for the past five days and that was just extremely hard to overcome.”Her comment comes after Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said Tuesday Hannity has been giving him advice “behind the scenes.” “I want to thank Sean Hannity. Sean has been like a brother...

The Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary has yet to be decided, and the final result may come down to tens of thousands of outstanding mail-in ballots that won’t be counted until Wednesday. Currently, businessman Dave McCormick leads Trump-endorsed TV doctor Mehmet Oz by about 1,700 votes, well within the margin for a mandatory recount. Upstart candidate Kathy Barnette, who appeared to be gaining ground on her competitors early in the night, is currently at 24.7% Just before midnight local time, McCormick told supporters, “We had a pretty good day today. I want to thank you all so much for your support...

Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette told the Todd Starnes Radio Show Monday that Fox News host Sean Hannity is leading the charge against her. Hannity has used his primetime show to criticize Barnette while supporting the Trump-endorsed candidate in the race, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Barnette challenged Hannity to use his show for a live debate between her and Oz, but she said Hannity said no. “And yet every single night, he’s the ringleader of this pile-on of Kathy Barnette,” she told host Todd Starnes. “I said, ‘Sean, I’m clearing my calendar. 9pm I will come see you. Sit in...

Here in Pennsylvania I see all mail-in votes in the official Department of State count for US Senate and surprise surprise David McCormick getting a big chunk of those Dr. Oz in second place and Kathy Barnette third. They are all mail-in votes there in the GOP US Senate primary. John Fetterman with 52 percent of those mail-in votes on the Democrat side of the US Senate primary. These mail-in votes for Governor on Republican side give Bill McSwain former federal prosecutor unendorsed by President Trump 29 percent of the vote...

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor and a Democratic candidate for US Senate, is set to undergo a procedure to implant a pacemaker with defibrillator, his campaign said...

A century ago Pennsylvania was the second largest US state with 36 Congressional Districts and now following the latest census another district eliminated bringing the Keystone State down to just 17 in this election year 2022. "I'm going to make Ron DeSantis look like an amateur because we're an energy producer and we're going to roll back regulations...we'll roll bac 461 million dollars ot taxation... So our vision for Pennsylvania is to restore freedom and to revive our economy and to rebuild families and it's a vision of hope..." Republican State Senator Doug Mastriano Campaigns For Governor Of Pennsylvania In...

You gotta hand it to conservatives – we get abused and dumped and generally treated like dishrags, but we never stop falling for the latest politician who is going to sweep us off our feet and make sweet, sweet political love to us. Yet maybe, instead of acting on our infatuations, we should be players instead of getting played. Maybe we should banish the starry-eyed romanticism, stop scratching "Cons + Pol" surrounded by little hearts in our Pee-Chee folders and start, as noted political theorist Sir Mix-A-Lot observed in his renowned treatise "Baby Got Back," to "hit it and quit...

This Tuesday voters have decisions to make in the Republican Primaries. Will it be Madison Cawthorn or President Xi in North Carolina? Will it be Kathy Barnette or Globalism in Pennsylvania? Will it be Doug Mastriano or the RINO Establishment here in the Keystone State? Will it be MAGA Janice McGeachin or the China First Republican Governor Brad Little in Idaho? If there isn't unity behind one candidate in the crowded GOP Primary fields the China First Republicans win. In Idaho Glenn Beck for example gave a lot of attention to Ed Humphreys alongside McGeachin. A split vote leaves Little...

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette addressed several recent controversies over her record on Sunday, as she continues to surge in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Speaking with host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday,” Barnette responded to criticisms about parts of her past that have come under fire in recent days, including questions about her military service record and insensitive tweets she had made in the past. She also blasted her primary opponents for raising controversy, claiming that they were “mad” because of her recent rise. “So I want to give you a chance to answer some of...

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A teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting several schoolgirls, police said. Muhammed Taimoor, of Richmond Road, Birmingham, is charged with causing or inciting child sexual exploitation. He is also charged with sexual activity while in a position of trust and two counts of trafficking within the UK. It is alleged some assaults happened while he was at work, West Midlands Police said. The trafficking charge is in connection with an accusation Mr. Taimoor drove girls around in his car with the intention of sexually assaulting them, the force added. The 28-year old was initially arrested on 9 May on...

Welcome To Your Weekend. What Is It All About With Ukraine? Is China the real winner? Joe Biden has friends in Ukraine and China we are told and a weakened Russia helps to strengthen China gives China a dominion over Russia's natural resources with Europe out of the picture as an export market for them... "Women And Minorities Impacted The Most" The headline Rush used to suggest for mainstream drive-by media spin on major news stories... Women-Minorities doesn't that bring us to politics in Pennsylvania the "Fakeservative" GOP Establishment media going after Conservative Kathy Barnette in the US Senate race......

When Republicans make choices to vote for a candidate based on their stances, credentials, personality, or any other valid criteria, I never hold it against them. We may disagree, but one of the beauties of our constitutional republic lies in the way individual voters judge candidates. It’s the job of candidates, their campaigns, and their supporters to make cases for them and against their opponents. Whoever does the best at this generally wins. There is only one criteria that chaps my khakis when cited by conservatives as their reasoning for voting for or against someone: Electability. While I completely understand...

A super PAC supporting Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon and prominent candidate in Pennsylvania's Republican Senate primary, has released an attack ad that wildly distorts the past remarks and positions of Kathy Barnette, a party rival who is surging in late-campaign polls. The super PAC, American Leadership Action, tries to depict the right-wing Barnette, who ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives in 2020, as a "crazy" advocate of liberal positions. To do so, though, the super PAC misleadingly truncated Barnette's past comments about race and policing and added inaccurate introductions to these shortened clips. The primary takes place...

One of Dr. Oz’s opponents in the tightly contested Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary has a history of bigoted comments toward Muslims, a review of tweets and online content by The Post shows. Political commentator Kathy Barnette’s incendiary comments first emerged seven years ago when she likened Muslims to “animals.” “We must stop interacting with them as if they r rational human beings. There is nothing rational about Islam,” Barnette, 50, tweeted in 2015. The same year she shared an article titled “Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam.”

Kathy Barnette, a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, has a social media history packed with anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ sentiments, as well as conspiracy theories about former President Obama. (snip) Driving the news: Former President Donald Trump warned Republicans Thursday that Barnette's history will preclude her from winning a general election in Pennsylvania. Trump has endorsed celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz in the race. (snip) In one of the tweets, Barnette said "pedophilia is a cornerstone of Islam." (snip) Worth noting: Barnette talked derogatorily about Muslims, Islam and Obama in speeches as well, CNN reports.

CRAZY KATHY, a DD214 is not about "entering" the military, it's about LEAVING the military, and your "uncharacterized" withdrawal from service IS A RED FLAG. What the hell were you up to anyway ? FOR REAL. https://t.co/jj47AsNrNj— ADJUNCT PROFFESSOR Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) May 14, 2022My DD214 entering the military in 1990. pic.twitter.com/OEtAhM5UHJ— Kathy Barnette (@Kathy4Truth) May 14, 2022Kathy…a couple days ago you said your DD214 covered 3 years of service & an HONORABLE discharge.This DD214 doesn’t reflect either of those things. https://t.co/VwVfqecTi3— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) May 14, 2022

In February 2022, I attended the Republican State Committee Meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Our job, as state committee members, was to interview, vet, select, and support endorsed candidates through the primary and election cycles. This election cycle, for the first time in decades, the top three positions for governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate in Pennsylvania are "open seats." An open seat is when no incumbent is running, due to term limits or resignations. Open seats always draw more candidates. But this cycle, we Republican state committee members were called upon to complete the endorsement process for approximately 30 candidates, running...