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ABC News reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday will host a fundraiser with Senate candidates in key battleground states a week after appearing to criticize the “quality” — of some GOP Senate candidates. Herschel Walker, running for Senate in Georgia, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, and Rep. Ted Budd, running for Senate in North Carolina, …

Mediaite reports: Mehmet Oz petitioned top White House officials to green light the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in March of 2020, newly released emails show. The drug, which never showed any success at fighting Covid-19 in spite of multiple trials, was presented by Oz as a “potential pandemic solution” in emails to Dr. Deborah Birx and others. In …

The Insider reports: Last Monday John Fetterman, Oz’s Democratic opponent, resurfaced a video Oz recorded in what he called a “Wegners” — a mishmash of the Redner’s and Wegmans grocery store chains — shopping for “crudité” and complaining about inflation. Fetterman’s comment: “in PA, we call this a veggie tray.” In an exclusive statement to Insider, the doctor’s campaign jabbed …

Mediaite reports: An apparently fake poll showing Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman neck and neck duped Breitbart News. “Fetterman has led Oz in most polls, often by double digits. However, the race may be tightening,” wrote Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak in a hopeful Sunday article. “One poll, by former …

“The real campaign issue in Pennsylvania, according to everybody, is Dr. Mehmet Oz is an elitist. Elitist. And we know if you earn money in the United States, that makes you unqualified for office.  “The original founders of the country tended to be overwhelmingly wealthy men because again, the idea here is that if you don’t want people in politics …

Rolling Stone reports: As the critical Pennsylvania Senate race between Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Donald Trump-backed TV celebrity Dr. Oz rages on, the former president is coming to the same conclusion that numerous party consultants and conservative bigwigs arrived at earlier this summer: Oz is very likely doomed. He’s going to “fucking lose,” unless something drastically changes, Trump …

The Verge reports: Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman’s campaign to troll Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz into defeat has dominated Facebook and Twitter over the last few weeks. But on Thursday, the campaign announced it is launching an official TikTok account to expand the reach of its already viral videos. The campaign formally launched the TikTok account with a video …

The Hill reports: Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said in a new interview that he was “exhausted” when he made a video that later went viral showing the celebrity doctor shopping for ingredients for “crudité” while mispronouncing the name of the grocery store. “I was exhausted. When you’re campaigning 18 hours a day you, listen, I’ve gotten my kids’ …

The Daily Beast reports: It’s a question most Americans can answer pretty easily: “How many houses do you own?” But for TV doctor and Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, it’s apparently a tricky one—with qualifiers, an explanation, and an interpretative answer. At a campaign stop last weekend at the Carbon County Fair in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, a Democratic campaign operative asked Oz …

Newsweek reports: In a bizarre political ad part of celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz’s campaign to win the Pennsylvania Senate race, Democratic rival candidate John Fetterman gets his head opened up to reveal “some screws lose” and a bong, before his electoral political agenda is laid out and described as “crazy” and “ridiculous.” But the supposed mockery of the Democratic candidate …

The Daily Beast reports: When Dr. Mehmet Oz sat in front of the camera last year for a promotional video for Walmart, it ostensibly was to inform his fans and viewers how best to improve their immune health. “You may not realize that a quality probiotic is a proven immunity booster,” Oz said to the camera, before holding up a …

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 …

Fox New reports: In the U.S. Senate race, Democrat John Fetterman holds an 11-point lead over Republican Mehmet Oz, 47%-36%, in a Fox News poll released Thursday. Three percent back independent candidate Everett Stern and 13% support someone else or are undecided. A big problem for Oz is consolidating GOP support. By a 16-point margin, fewer Republicans stay loyal to …

From the clip’s description on YouTube: At its roots, MeidasTouch produced and continues to produce the most powerful political ads of every election cycle, and this one is no different. On this MeidasTouch exclusive, Texas Paul introduces the new MeidasTouch ad on Dr. Oz called ‘The Wizard of Lies.’ The video exposes the carpetbagger and grifter that is Dr. Oz. …

Florida Politics reports: Television personality Mehmet Oz spent months in a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race touting a history of hunting in Florida. However the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has confirmed Oz never had a license to hunt in the Sunshine State legally. An April ad started with a close-up of Oz’s hands as he loaded and cocked a …

Politico reports: Mehmet Oz is trailing in polls. A key Republican has yet to endorse him since the celebrity doctor won the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania Senate more than a month ago. And Oz has gone dark on the airwaves since May 21 — even as his Democratic rival John Fetterman burnishes his brand on TV as a political outsider, …

Politics Pennsylvania reports: In a poll conducted between June 12-19, Fetterman holds a six-point advantage (50-44) over Mehmet Oz in the race to become the Keystone State’s next senator. The lieutenant governor has a narrow three-point lead (49-46) among voters 50 and older. Fetterman (+10) has a 46 percent favorable rate with 36 percent looking on him unfavorably. Oz is …

Axios reports: Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is quietly shifting his campaign messaging away from former President Trump as he transitions into what’s likely to be one of the most hotly contested Senate elections of the midterms. Oz’s transition for the general election highlights the tightrope many Trump-endorsed candidates have attempted to walk — embrace …

Raw Story reports: Fox News host Bill Hemmer called out Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz after he suggested that he was leading in Pennsylvania polls despite being behind. During an appearance on Fox News, Hemmer pointed to a poll that indicates Democrat John Fetterman has a nine-point lead in the Pennsylvania race. Oz argued that the poll did not account …

Mediaite reports: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo asked Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz whether he would diagnose President Joe Biden with dementia during a Tuesday interview. Bartiromo bluntly asked him, “You’re a doctor, does he have dementia? Is this a national security issue?” Dr. Oz responded with laughter and eventually said part of his Hippocratic oath as a doctor prevents him from …