{"id":1165350,"date":"2021-12-28T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165350"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:49:20","slug":"oprah-dr-oz-running-for-senate-is-an-example-of-one-of-the-great-things-about-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oprah-dr-oz-running-for-senate-is-an-example-of-one-of-the-great-things-about-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah: Dr. Oz Running For Senate Is An Example Of \u2018One Of The Great Things About Our Democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foprah-dr-oz-running-for-senate-is-an-example-of-one-of-the-great-things-about-our-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165350&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Oprah Winfrey said Dr. Mehmet Oz\u2019s decision to run for office is an example of the greatness of American democracy, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the great things about our democracy is that every citizen can decide to run for public office,\u201d Winfrey said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/dr-oz-senate-pennsylvania.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided<\/a> to Intelligencer. \u201cMehmet Oz has made that decision. And now it\u2019s up to the residents of Pennsylvania to decide who will represent them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oz <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/30\/mehmet-oz-declares-pennsylvania-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> his candidacy in the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race at the end of November, running as a Republican to replace Sen. Pat Toomey. Winfrey has a long professional relationship with Oz, often having him as a guest on \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show\u201d and offering to produce \u201cThe Dr. Oz Show\u201d through her company Harpo Productions in 2009, People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/oprah-winfrey-weighs-in-dr-ozs-republican-senate-campaign-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7343773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7343773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oprah Winfrey on stage during her An Evening With Oprah tour on December 2, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oz said he asked Winfrey not to get involved in the race during a meet and greet with Manhattan Republican grandees at a steakhouse on Dec. 16, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/25\/dr-oz-tells-oprah-to-stay-away-from-his-pennsylvania-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked her to stay out,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t support me because if you get involved in any way, you\u2019ll get hurt and I don\u2019t want my friends hurt.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/31\/she-is-fake-rose-mcgowan-blasts-oprah-winfrey-claims-not-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018She Is As Fake As They Come\u2019: Rose McGowan Blasts Oprah Winfrey, Claims She\u2019s Not \u2018Real\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former football star Herschel Walker is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-bid-2022-raphael-warnock-jon-ossoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running<\/a> as a Republican in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial race after former President Donald Trump encouraged him to launch a campaign. He was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/27\/mitch-mcconnell-endorses-herschel-walker-georgia-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed<\/a> by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, while Oz has yet to receive any major endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey said Dr. Mehmet Oz\u2019s decision to run for office is an example of the greatness of American democracy, according to a statement.\u201cOne of the great things &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}