Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz says he’s “blessed to have earned the presumptive Republican nomination for the United States Senate” in the key us-regions
Oz, the cardiac surgeon, author and well-known celebrity physician who until the launch of his Senate campaign late last year was host of TV’s popular “Dr. Oz Show,” elections “time to unite” as he made his announcement Friday in a video released on social media.
PENNSYLVANIA DECLARES RECOUNT IN OZ-MCCORMICK SENATE GOP PRIMARY
The announcement came on the same day that Pennsylvania counties could begin their recount in the race between Oz and Dave McCormick, the top two vote-getters among the seven candidates in last week’selections” target=”_blank”> Republican Senate primary<
Even as the recount was announced, counting of the vote from the May 17 primary continues.
Deputy secretary of elections and commissions Jonathan Marks said on Thursday that an estimated 10,000 ballots have yet to be counted – including roughly 6,000 mail-in and absentee ballots (including as many as 3,000 overseas or military ballots) and 4,000 provisional ballots. No breakdown on how many of the remaining ballots to be tabulated were cast in the Republican or Democratic primaries was given.
Dave McCormick and his wife Dinah Powell talk to supporters on primary election night, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Pittsburgh.
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Either McCormick or Oz will face Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who easily won the Democratic nomination in the fight to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey. The race is one of a handful across the country that will likely decide if Republicans win back the Senate majority elections
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McCormick said in a statement earlier this week that “this narrow difference triggers an automatic recount, and we look forward to a swift resolution so our party can unite to defeat socialist John Fetterman in the fall.”
Oz, McCormick and the other major contenders in the GOP nomination race all worked for months to land donald-trump” target=”_blank”>former President Donald Trump<
Trump – who for a year and a half has continuously re-litigated his 2020 presidential election loss and repeatedly makes unproven claims that the election was “rigged” with “massive voter fraud” – on the day after last week’s primary alleged in a statement on social media that “in Pennsylvania they are unable to count the Mail-in Ballots It is a BIG MESS.”
And he urged that “Dr. Oz should declare victory. It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happen to find.’”
