All of the PA GOP Senate news you might have missed
PENNSYLVANIA – The Pennsylvania GOP’s “trainwreck” Senate primary did not take the holidays off as the field of well-funded and flawed candidates continued to generate negative coverage. See below for the latest from the country’s nastiest primary:
York Dispatch, Candidates parachuting into Pa. to run for our U.S. Senate seat a troubling development
So, it will be up to Pennsylvania’s Republican voters at the May 17 primary. Are they OK with ultra-wealthy office hunters parachuting into their state at the last minute in order to claim a U.S. Senate seat? We hope the answer to that question is no.
New York Magazine, His campaign to be the next Republican senator from Pennsylvania is facing one major problem: Republicans in Pennsylvania.
One Trump turned McCormick adviser told me, “We’re getting reports every day from people he’s meeting with — he’s doing these private meet-and-greet type of things — that he’s incoherent when it comes to the issues.”
New York Times, ‘Magic’ Weight-Loss Pills and Covid Cures: Dr. Oz Under the Microscope
But the entry into the race of the Cleveland-born heart surgeon, a son of Turkish immigrants who has been the host of “The Dr. Oz Show” since 2009, also brought renewed scrutiny to the blemishes on his record as one of America’s most famous doctors: his long history of dispensing dubious medical advice.
NJ.com, Dr. Oz’s candidacy is a national health hazard | Editorial
Mehmet Oz is a celebrated cardiothoracic surgeon who has decided that peddling quackery is more rewarding than providing sound medical advice, and the fact that he could get elected to the U.S. Senate will be scary once the laughter dies down.
Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion, The OTHER out-of-state GOP Senate guy is worse | Will Bunch Newsletter
After spending years away in Connecticut’s mansion zone to become a hedge-fund super-rich guy on Wall Street, prodigal son David McCormick is wrong-way crossing the Delaware to become the latest big-spending out-of-stater to get bug-eyed over the once-in-a-lifetime open-seat opportunity to represent 12.9 million total strangers in Pennsylvania as our next U.S. senator. Well apparently, anyway.
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