{"id":1422548,"date":"2022-04-06T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422548"},"modified":"2022-04-06T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:59:45","slug":"david-mccormick-trends-upwards-in-the-pennsylvania-senate-primary-polls-as-mehmet-oz-free-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-mccormick-trends-upwards-in-the-pennsylvania-senate-primary-polls-as-mehmet-oz-free-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"David McCormick Trends Upwards in the Pennsylvania Senate Primary Polls as Mehmet Oz Free Falls"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdavid-mccormick-trends-upwards-in-the-pennsylvania-senate-primary-polls-as-mehmet-oz-free-falls%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=1422548&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Businessman\u00a0David McCormick has been trending upwards in the poll as celebrity doctor\u00a0Mehmet Oz appears to be in free fall as the primary election is roughly one month away.<\/p>\n<p>Two separate polls on the\u00a0Pennsylvania\u00a0Republican Senate primary show\u00a0McCormick in the lead, surging ahead of the\u00a0celebrity doctor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The most recent poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/mccormick-continues-steady-climb-in-polls-as-ozs-support-collapses\">conducted<\/a> by Public Opinion Strategies for the\u00a0McCormick-aligned super PAC,\u00a0Honor Pennsylvania, which the\u00a0<em>Washington Examiner<\/em> first reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/PollTrackerUSA\/status\/1511397770736947204\">showed<\/a>\u00a0McCormick with 22 percent in the poll. In comparison, Dr. Oz only has 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The poll also showed McCormick in the lead since\u00a0February and\u00a0Dr. Oz declining 15 percentage points since January, just before\u00a0McCormick officially entered the race.<\/p>\n<p>While McCormick and Dr.\u00a0Oz have traded jabs as the frontrunners,\u00a0Kathy Barnett,\u00a0Carla Sands, and\u00a0Jeff Bartos are also in the race, polling around ten percent. The poll was conducted from\u00a0March 29 to April 3 with 600 likely voter respondents and a four percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Examiner<\/em> reported that the poll indicated that Dr.\u00a0Oz\u2019s image had fallen since January. His favorabilitly\u00a0reportedly started at 49 percent and is now at 37 percent, and his\u00a0unfavorability has gone from\u00a024 percent\u00a0to\u00a049 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Harris, a strategist with\u00a0the\u00a0McCormick-aligned super PAC, told the\u00a0<em>Examiner<\/em> that Dr. Oz \u201chas a 49% unfavorable image, and only 17% of those polled think he\u2019s a conservative,\u201d said Harris.\u00a0\u201cThat is a very bad place to be in a GOP primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mccormick-tops-dr-oz-pennsylvania-gop-senate-primary\">poll<\/a>\u00a0conducted in a joint effort with the Democrat polling firm Beacon Research and Republican polling firm Shaw &#038; Company Research in\u00a0early March, showed a similar trend, with\u00a0McCormick in the lead.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick showed 24 percent in the poll, while the celebrity doctor showed 15 percent. The other candidates \u2014\u00a0Barnett,\u00a0Carla, and Bartos \u2014 hovered between six and nine percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News poll was conducted from March 2 to 6 with 960 Pennsylvania Republican primary voters and a three percent margin of error.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman\u00a0David McCormick has been trending upwards in the poll as celebrity doctor\u00a0Mehmet Oz appears to be in free fall as the primary election is roughly one month away. 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