{"id":1493521,"date":"2022-05-26T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493521"},"modified":"2022-05-26T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:46:06","slug":"gop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sides With Oz In Pennsylvania Recount: \u2018Election Laws Are Meant To Be Followed\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\">28<\/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%2Fgop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed%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=1493521&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--><p>As the Republican primary for Pennsylvania\u2019s open Senate seat heads for a recount, the Republican National Convention (RNC) is siding with Dr. Mehmet Oz over his opponent, David McCormick, the party\u2019s legal counsel revealed earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by less than 1,000 votes. Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh Chapman announced her intentions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pa-republicans-wont-know-who-their-senate-nominee-is-for-at-least-another-two-weeks-commonwealth-says\">order a recount<\/a> in accordance with state law, which mandates recounts when candidates finish within 0.5% of one another.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disenfranchising-these-voters-mccormick-sues-pennsylvania-election-boards-to-count-undated-ballots\">sued in Pennsylvania court<\/a> on Monday to make county election boards tally undated mail-in ballots \u2014 a move that RNC chief counsel Matt Raymer denounced over election integrity concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RNC is intervening in this lawsuit alongside the Pennsylvania GOP because election laws are meant to be followed, and changing the rules when ballots are already being counted harms the integrity of our elections,\u201d Raymer said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rnc-sides-with-dr-oz-in-pennsylvania-senate-ballot-counting-dispute-2022-5\">Insider<\/a>. \u201cEither of Pennsylvania\u2019s leading Republican Senate candidates would represent the Keystone State better than a Democrat, but Pennsylvania law is clear that undated absentee ballots may not be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCormick\u2019s lawsuit alleges that Pennsylvania\u2019s county election boards are \u201cdisenfranchising\u201d voters. The case \u2014 which follows a Friday federal court decision declaring that undated ballots in a 2021 Pennsylvania county judgeship election must be counted \u2014 therefore demands that the election boards count ballots \u201cthat were returned on time but that lack a handwritten date on the exterior mailing envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Oz campaign argued that McCormick is \u201cfollowing the Democrats\u2019 playbook\u201d and eroding voters\u2019 confidence in election integrity. \u201cIt is a clear contrast between Dr. Mehmet Oz\u2019s efforts to secure America\u2019s democratic process and John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee, who doesn\u2019t even want to require Pennsylvanians to show ID to vote,\u201d Oz campaign manager Casey Contres said.<\/p>\n<p>Oz currently has 419,365 votes, while McCormick has 418,463. Conservative commentator Kathy Barnette \u2014 whose campaign surged in the race\u2019s final days \u2014 earned 331,398 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, former President Donald Trump urged Oz \u2014 his endorsed candidate \u2014 to claim the win. \u201cDr. Oz should declare victory. It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they \u2018just happened to find,\u2019\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/18\/trump-dr-oz-should-declare-victory-pennsylvania-00033420\">claimed<\/a> on Truth Social, his social media company.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Republicans in Pennsylvania will not identify their nominee for at least another two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounties may begin their recount as early as Friday but must begin no later than June 1,\u201d the Pennsylvania government said. \u201cThey must complete the recount by noon on June 7, and they must submit the recount results to the Department of State by noon on June 8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oz or McCormick will face Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the winner of the Democratic Senate primary, in November. Fetterman \u2014 the longtime mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, before becoming lieutenant governor in 2019 \u2014 carried every county and more than doubled U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb\u2019s share of the Democratic electorate.<\/p>\n<p>The victor will then succeed Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican who is retiring after two terms in the Senate. Democrats, therefore, have a chance to flip the seat in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Republican primary for Pennsylvania\u2019s open Senate seat heads for a recount, the Republican National Convention (RNC) is siding with Dr. Mehmet Oz over his opponent, David McCormick, the party\u2019s legal counsel revealed earlier this week. Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1493564,"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-1493521","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\/1493521","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}