{"id":1501551,"date":"2022-06-02T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501551"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:15:01","slug":"democrats-campaign-against-scam-artist-oz-and-wall-street-insider-mccormick-even-before-recount-declares-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-campaign-against-scam-artist-oz-and-wall-street-insider-mccormick-even-before-recount-declares-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Campaign Against \u2018Scam Artist\u2019 Oz And \u2018Wall Street Insider\u2019 McCormick Even Before Recount Declares Winner"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdemocrats-campaign-against-scam-artist-oz-and-wall-street-insider-mccormick-even-before-recount-declares-winner%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=1501551&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>Pennsylvania is in the middle of a recount for its Republican Senate primary \u2014 but Democrats are already campaigning against both candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads David McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by fewer than 1,000 votes. Because the candidates fall within a 0.5% margin with one another, the Pennsylvania Department of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pa-republicans-wont-know-who-their-senate-nominee-is-for-at-least-another-two-weeks-commonwealth-says\">ordered a recount<\/a> in accordance with commonwealth law.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats see the Pennsylvania race as one of their best chances to flip a Senate seat in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-polls-signal-major-problems-for-democrats-ahead-of-2022-midterm-elections\">uphill battle<\/a> to keep control of both chambers of Congress. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, will vacate his seat after his upcoming retirement. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is therefore sparing no arrows in campaigning against both Oz and McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDems will label McCormick and Oz as \u2018damaged goods\u2019 \u2014 highlighting their positions on Social Security and Medicare, and the GOP tax plan, and claiming both candidates have enriched themselves through connections to China,\u201d according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/02\/scoop-pa-dems-launch-two-campaigns-against-mccormick-and-oz-as-gop-recount-drags\">Axios<\/a>. Democrats are releasing two videos \u2014 one calling McCormick a \u201cWall Street insider\u201d and another slamming Oz for \u201cpretending to be from Pennsylvania and pushing Trump\u2019s election lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either Oz or McCormick will face Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who defeated U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb to decisively win the Democratic Senate primary, in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are wasting no time\u201d casting Oz as a \u201cscam artist\u201d and McCormick as a \u201cWall Street insider,\u201d DSCC spokesman Patrick Burgwinkle told Axios. He added that Democrats want the eventual Republican candidate to enter the general election \u201ceven more badly damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oz and McCormick, however, still appear to have their attention focused on emerging from the recount. McCormick sued in Pennsylvania court after the primary race to make county election boards tally undated mail-in ballots. McCormick\u2019s lawsuit claimed that the county boards are \u201cdisenfranchising\u201d voters who did not date their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Although the McCormick team is calling for the counting of undated ballots, the Oz campaign \u2014 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed\">backing<\/a> of the Republican National Committee (RNC) \u2014 argues that the ballots should remain uncounted. Indeed, the Oz camp has alleged that McCormick is \u201cfollowing the Democrats\u2019 playbook\u201d and eroding voters\u2019 confidence in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates\u2019 legal teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pennsylvania-court-hears-arguments-that-could-decide-oz-mccormick-contest\">presented their cases<\/a> before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court earlier this week. The Pennsylvania Department of State has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.pa.gov\/Pages\/State-details.aspx?newsid=525\">directed the counties<\/a> to finish the recount by noon on June 7 and submit results by noon on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the heightened Democratic campaigns against Oz and McCormick comes as progressives worry about Fetterman\u2019s health, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/fettermans-health-return-campaign-trail-mystery-democrats-grow-nervous-rcna31645%5C\">NBC News<\/a>. Fetterman \u2014 the former mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania \u2014 was hospitalized days ahead of the primary election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-top-democrat-in-u-s-senate-race-in-pennsylvania-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke\">after suffering a stroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One elected Pennsylvania Democrat told the outlet that there has been \u201cno indication\u201d of a timeline for Fetterman\u2019s return to the campaign trail. \u201cA lot of us Democratic Party types are very nervous about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania Democratic strategist told NBC that he and others do not know what to make of Fetterman\u2019s absence. \u201cIt\u2019s not like Fetterman has close institutional allies, so Dems are calling around wanting to ask the question, but no clue where to get a sense of how serious it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania is in the middle of a recount for its Republican Senate primary \u2014 but Democrats are already campaigning against both candidates. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads David McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by fewer than 1,000 votes. Because the candidates fall within a 0.5% margin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1483488,"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-1501551","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\/1501551","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=1501551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}