{"id":1468378,"date":"2022-05-09T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468378"},"modified":"2022-05-09T07:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:16:21","slug":"kathy-barnette-surges-in-pa-primary-polling-dr-oz-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-barnette-surges-in-pa-primary-polling-dr-oz-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Barnette Surges in PA Primary Polling, Dr. Oz Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fkathy-barnette-surges-in-pa-primary-polling-dr-oz-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=1468378&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<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>With two weeks to go before the hotly contested Pennsylvania Republican Primary, a new poll shows that race is now a statistical 3-way tie between Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kathy Barnette, and Dave McCormick.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: PA Primary is now a 3-way tie between Oz, Barnette, and McCormick <\/p>\n<p>Kathy Barnette is surging due to her debate performance and Oz&#8217;s heavy negatives with GOP voters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LxQLyVWuFK\">pic.twitter.com\/LxQLyVWuFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1523512208415727617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TRF-PA-GOP-Sen-Primary-0508-Poll-Report.pdf\">Trafalgar Group poll<\/a>, Trump endorsed Oz was at 24.5 percent, Barnette was at 23.2 percent and McCormick was at 21.6 percent in the race to be the nominee for the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The survey was conducted between May 6 and May 8. The poll consisted of 1080 likely 2022 GOP primary voters, had a response rate of 1.44 percent and a margin of error of 2.99 percent.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Pundits theorized that Barnette is surging due to her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/pennsylvania-senate-candidate-kathy-barnette-reveals\">debate performance<\/a> and Oz was falling due to his heavy negatives with Republican voters.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/pennsylvania-senate-candidate-kathy-barnette-reveals\">debate last Wednesday<\/a>, Barnette spoke about her mother, who was only 11-years-old when she was raped by a man 10 years her senior. Barnette was the result of that rape, and her gratitude to her mother for carrying her and giving her life was clear.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Whether this was a leak or whether this was a tactical operation we will soon figure out,&#8221; she said in response to a question about the recent, unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that could overturn <em>Roe v. Wade.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;One thing is clear, I am so very grateful that our nation is now having a very important conversation, and that is the most important conversation, that is about life. I am the byproduct of a rape,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;My mother was 11-years-old when I was conceived. My father was 21. I was not just a lump of cells. As you can see, I&#8217;m still not just a lump of cells. My life has value. And that is one of the reasons why it was so very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Barnette said she had seen <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/flashback-dr-oz-was-an-early-promoter-of-trans-children-including-surgery\">Oz<\/a>, on &#8220;numerous occasions,&#8221; including on podcast <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>, where in 2019 he said that six weeks into a woman&#8217;s pregnancy, a baby&#8217;s heart is just &#8220;a cell&#8221; with &#8220;little electrical changes.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/jack-posobiec-challenges-dr-oz-human-events-daily-defend-liberal-positions\">Oz<\/a> is a surgeon who has performed operations on infants.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Receipts: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gZSOCKgCW\">https:\/\/t.co\/8gZSOCKgCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1468047452112658432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating,&#8221; Oz said at the time. &#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart&#8217;s not beating \u2026 If you were to say, starting when we can hear the heart, like when the heart&#8217;s really doing something, that&#8217;d be different. That&#8217;s not six weeks, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Barnette asked Oz if he had changed his position on that. Oz did not say whether he had or had not changed his view but said, &#8220;One of the toughest endorsements you could ever get is from your mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is an ordained minister. She wrote a lot of the pro-life literature in Montgomery County where we live, and she certainly understands that I&#8217;m pro-life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;As a heart surgeon I&#8217;ve operated on small children few days old and witnessed the majesty of their hearts pounding blood even though it&#8217;s ill because I&#8217;m operating not to those bodies. I would never think of harming that child or even nine months earlier because life starts at conception,&#8221; Oz said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republican candidate Kathy Barnette receives an ovation after her closing statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kffNrocGhM\">pic.twitter.com\/kffNrocGhM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1522208900442898432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In her closing statements, Barnette said &#8220;I am you Pennsylvania and like you I believe this is the greatest country that has ever existed, but like you, I believe our country is in trouble. I believe that America that allowed me to claw my way out of dire poverty is about to come to a close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;This time you do not have to hold your nose to vote for the lesser of two evils. I am in a statistical tie for first place, so voting for me is not throwing your vote away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kathy4Truth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kathy4Truth<\/a> slamming BLM and Defund the Police in the summer of 2020 during the middle of the riots <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3b7HOzQ96v\">pic.twitter.com\/3b7HOzQ96v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1523516514472644608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Listen, go to my Facebook page by Kathy Barnett for Senate and you will see exactly what I&#8217;m doing today that I will amp up tomorrow after this race. You will see me in rooms full of black people changing their voter registration from Democrat to Republican, you will see me downtown and Chinatown. They are mine. You will see people ushering me in front of a roomful of Amish people with them introducing me as someone with their values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Not only do I have a grasp on our own base, but I can go into every nook and cranny and take the votes that we need in order to really be better than in the general election. So, let&#8217;s go do this.&#8221; Barnette received a massive round of applause after the remarks.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two weeks to go before the hotly contested Pennsylvania Republican Primary, a new poll shows that race is now a statistical 3-way tie between Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468378","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\/1468378","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468378\/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=1468378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}