Politico: GOP Raising “Alarm Bell” Over Flailing Oz

Politico reports:

The GOP establishment is feeling down on Dr. Oz. The Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is privately sounding the alarm about physician Mehmet Oz’s bid for the Senate in the critical battleground of Pennsylvania, while telling donors that the party still has a path to winning the majority without the state.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised concerns about Oz’s lackluster polling and fundraising on at least three separate occasions in recent weeks, multiple sources told POLITICO. “It was an alarm bell,” the person said, adding that Oz’s poor image among voters is “really freaking everybody out.”

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“The viewpoint was it’s more important to reallocate money to seats that we feel we can win.” — via @hollyotterbein and @natalie_allison

‘Alarm bell’: Oz’s struggles have GOP pitching alternate path to Senate takeover https://t.co/72JhG16aUe via @politico

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