Republican celebrity heart surgeon and former TV talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz has surged past Democratic Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in a pair of Senate race polls.
. Another 3.6% said they were undecided, 2.8% said they’d back Libertarian candidate Erik Gerhardt, and 1.3% said they’d vote for someone else.The polls are the first two surveys in which Oz has led since winning a hard-fought Republican primary on May 17.in which Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May, stumbled over his words and struggled to give coherent responses.
For example, when asked if he felt the Biden administration has “overspent” and what he would cut from the federal budget, Fetterman stumbled through his response.“Here’s what I think we have to fight about inflation, here, right now. That’s we need to fight about: inflation right now,” he said, before calling price hikes a “tax” on the working class.
“I do support fracking and — I don’t, I don’t, I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking,” he stammered.
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