Before McCormick even conceded, Oz was under attack for being a New Jersey scam artist who would be terrible for Pennsylvanians
PENNSYLVANIA – While the GOP was battling it out in their messy primary and ensuing recount, Democrats were on the offensive. In addition to DSCC videos hitting both remaining candidates, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party held a statewide virtual press call with Senator Bob Casey and Chairwoman Mills, as well as in person press conferences in Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
Before McCormick even conceded and headed back to Connecticut, Democrats were getting out the message that Oz is a New Jersey scam artist who Pennsylvanians can’t trust. Read below what they are saying:
- Axios, Scoop: Pa. Dems launch two campaigns as GOP recount drags: Senate Democrats’ campaign arm isn’t waiting for a recount in the Republican primary between Dave McCormick and Mehmet Oz. It’s launching a general election campaign now — against both…Dems will label McCormick and Oz as “damaged goods” — highlighting their positions on Social Security and Medicare, and the GOP tax plan, and claiming both candidates have enriched themselves through connections to China.
- Philadelphia Inquirer: “The Democratic Party is unified behind a candidate who can win,” Sen. Bob Casey told reporters in a Zoom call, pointing to Fetterman’s dominant victory, in which he won every county in the state. Meanwhile, he said, Oz and McCormick spent tens of millions of dollars “kicking the hell out of each other” in a primary that exposed them as “extreme” followers of former President Donald Trump.
- The New York Times, In Pennsylvania, Democrats aren’t waiting for a race call to attack Oz and McCormick: The recount of Pennsylvania’s photo-finish Republican Senate primary will not be revealed until June 8, but Democrats aren’t waiting to try to stain both possible winners, Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick.
- Politico, Mister Rogers no more: Bob Casey is feeling good about John Fetterman’s return to the campaign trail — and savaging the national GOP.: Not quite known to breathe rhetorical fire, Casey was spitting flames this morning during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee call: “Republicans have no answers. There’s no economic agenda. Where’s their jobs plan for the last 10 years? Where the hell is their health care plan? They don’t have one.”
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