Despite the support of former President and his TV colleague Donald Trump, celebrity and doctor who has become the hope of the US Senate, Dr. Mehmet Oz failed to win tonight the Republican nomination for the seat in the US Senate, which is currently occupied by retired Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.
Oz and former hedge fund chief executive Dave McCormick are the two frontrunners in a race that is still too close to pay, with McCormick having 31.2% of the vote and Oz 31.1% at 9pm PT , according to the Washington Post. Under Pennsylvania law, any difference in votes below .5% automatically triggers a recount.
The race was tense after the ballot box closed and tightened even more when the results came out, making the recount almost certain. Of the 1.1 million Republican votes cast in the primary, Oz and McCormick remain divided by just 1,477 votes, according to Fox News.
Dark Horse contender Katie Barnett, who raised far less than her better-known opponents but had a surge of support at the end of the race thanks to a strong performance in the debate, could be a spoiler, coming in at 24.7%. This is a good return on investment, given that Oz and McCormick have lent $ 12 million and $ 11 million to their own campaigns, respectively.
Oz is a longtime New Jersey resident, but according to the Associated Press, he registered with his father-in-law in the Philadelphia suburbs to vote absent last year, qualifying him to run in the state this year.
He was booed by potential supporters at a rain rally on May 7 with Trump. He probably did not change the minds of these Pennsylvanians when he refused to say last week that the 2020 election was rigged. Supporting this false story is a litmus test for many Trump supporters.
Late Tuesday night, Oz took to the stage at his campaign headquarters to admit that there would probably be no result tonight, but he was confident of victory. He told Trump, “I’m going to make you proud.”
He went on to thank Sean Haniti of Fox News for saying it was late night talks and advice.
“Sean is like a brother to me,” the TV doctor told the audience. “When Sean hits, he breaks through walls.
Whoever is the newly elected Republican candidate will face Lieutenant-Governor John Fetterman, a popular Democrat who even today had a pacemaker implanted after suffering a stroke last week, easily defeating his main rivals, Connor Lamb and the US Malcolm Kenya, in the race for his party’s nomination for the seat.
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