The two carpetbaggers, who have spent the entire primary tearing each other apart, finally to appear together in public
PENNSYLVANIA — Tomorrow at 9 AM the GOP Senate field, including New Jersey daytime TV host Mehmet Oz and Connecticut hedge fund executive David McCormick, will participate in a forum sponsored by the Manufacturer and Business Association in Erie. The forum will be aired on PCN.
This will be the first time the two carpetbagger candidates have shared a stage in public, despite spending the primary attacking each other on an almost daily basis in the nastiest and most expensive primary in the country.
The below is just a sampling of the baggage these two will bring to the stage tomorrow:
- An Oz-supporting super PAC started airing ads hitting McCormick on his ties to China and history of outsourcing jobs on the day McCormick announced his campaign, setting the tone of the primary early.
- The infighting continued as Oz aired his own ads, which called McCormick “China’s friend, not ours”.
- For months the McCormick campaign had leveled attacks at Oz around his dual Turkish citizenship, attacks that “sought to undermine Oz by raising doubts about his loyalties and financial interests because of his dual citizenship.” As a result, the two candidates ended up fighting via Twitter.
- In a direct to camera video, Oz slammed McCormick for being funded by Democrats and never Trump Republicans, referencing reporting from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
- The same week, Oz slammed McCormick in a follow up video, this time hitting McCormick for Bridgewater’s poor handling of Pennsylvania’s teachers pension fund, saying “He failed us and still took over half a billion dollars in fees and so we all have to pay half a billion dollars more of property taxes. Dishonest Dave gets rich, taxpayers lose.”
- Oz has continued this line of attack this week, releasing a new video linking to his website, DishonestDavePA.com.
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