{"id":1502973,"date":"2022-06-03T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502973"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:19:17","slug":"mccormick-concedes-to-oz-in-pa-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccormick-concedes-to-oz-in-pa-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"McCormick Concedes To Oz In PA Senate Primary"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmccormick-concedes-to-oz-in-pa-senate-primary%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=1502973&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>Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick conceded to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican primary Friday after a statewide recount.<\/p>\n<p>Before the recount, Oz led the race by 972 votes out of the 1.34 million counted in the May 17 primary, The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-entertainment-mehmet-oz-6b2849083ff96ac18dc25e939a3f9195?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. McCormick called Oz to concede after he realized he did not have the votes and vowed to back his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s now clear to me with the recount now largely complete that we have the nominee,\u201d McCormick said at a campaign party inside a hotel in Pittsburgh. \u201cAnd today I called Mehmet Oz to congratulate him on his victory. And I told him what I always said to you, that I will do my part to try to unite Republicans and Pennsylvanians behind his candidacy, behind his nomination for the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00H88ooHTg\">https:\/\/t.co\/00H88ooHTg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McCormick (@DaveMcCormickPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveMcCormickPA\/status\/1532852372493459456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The race had been deemed too close to call as of Friday, leading the acting secretary of state to announce a recount in late May. Oz narrowly led with 31.2% and McCormick holding 31.1% of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-primary-elections\/pennsylvania-senate-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to election results published by NBC News. Oz <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/27\/mehmet-oz-presumptive-victory-pennsylvania-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a> a \u201cpresumptive\u201d victory reportedly at the behest of former President Donald Trump, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/09\/donald-trump-endorses-mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed<\/a> the daytime TV host in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am blessed to have earned the presumptive Republican nomination for the United States Senate,\u201d Oz said in a video posted to Twitter on May 27. \u201cI know we\u2019ve got to heal, we\u2019ve got to pull people together again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said declaring victory would make it difficult for election officials to \u201ccheat with the ballots that they \u2018just happened to find,&#8217;\u201d NBC News reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/pennsylvania-kathy-barnette-challenges-sean-hannity-host-debate-dr-mehmet-oz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: GOP Senate Candidate Goads Sean Hannity, Dares Him To Host Debate With Dr Oz)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oz received backlash from conservatives on his stances regarding guns, abortion, transgender issues and ties to major technology and pharmaceutical corporations. He hosted a doctor on his show who reportedly promoted hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgeries for minors in 2013. Regarding abortion, Oz previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/laura-ingraham-trump-hannity-endorsement-dr-oz-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> a fetal heart is not beating at six weeks gestation, despite a majority of scientists confirming a heart begins beating in the sixth week of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>He previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dr-oz-gun-control-ideas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> for imposing red flag laws, which allows law enforcement to request a judge to bar a citizen posing a violent threat from possessing a gun. His campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/doctoroz.com\/issue\/second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> states that he opposes such measures.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/mike-pompeo-mehmet-oz-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Pompeo<\/a> expressed his \u201cnational security concerns\u201d tied to Oz given that he has allegedly \u201cengaged in the Turkish political process.\u201d Oz, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Turkey, has continued to hold his Turkish citizenship and said he has never participated in that country\u2019s political process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick conceded to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican primary Friday after a statewide recount.Before the recount, Oz led the race by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"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-1502973","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\/1502973","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502973\/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=1502973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}