{"id":1634682,"date":"2022-09-06T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634682"},"modified":"2022-09-06T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T01:34:24","slug":"oz-says-he-would-have-voted-to-certify-biden-victory-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oz-says-he-would-have-voted-to-certify-biden-victory-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Oz Says He Would Have Voted to Certify Biden Victory in 2020"},"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\">24<\/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%2Foz-says-he-would-have-voted-to-certify-biden-victory-in-2020%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=1634682&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>Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mehmet Oz said at a press conference in Philadelphia on Sept. 6 that he would have voted to certify Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential election victory but would have not voted to impeach former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our job was to approve it, which is what I would have done,\u201d Oz said.<\/p>\n<p>Oz, who is endorsed by Trump, said he would not have supported the former president\u2019s impeachment because he was \u201calready leaving office by then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Standing alongside retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, whose seat Oz and Democratic nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-fetterman\">John Fetterman<\/a> are vying for, Oz also chastised Fetterman for not agreeing to debate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1242929925-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Mehmet Oz, who is running for the US Senate, speaks as former U.S. President Donald Trump stands behind him during a campaign rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Sept. 3, 2022. (Ed Jones\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>During the press conference, Oz also clarified part of his stance on abortion. He said he would not support criminal penalties for women who have abortions or doctors offering the care. Oz added that he is \u201cstrongly pro-life\u201d but believes in exceptions with rape or incest cases, or if the mother\u2019s life is at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision earlier this year to overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade has emerged as a key issue in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Oz defended Roe v. Wade as recently as 2019, yet he says he is \u201c100 percent pro-life\u201d on his campaign website. In May, before the Republican primary, Oz said at a town hall event that he believes\u00a0 \u00a0\u201clife starts at conception\u201d and \u201cif life starts at conception, why do you care what age the heart starts beating at? It\u2019s, you know, it\u2019s still murder,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mehmet Oz said at a press conference in Philadelphia on Sept. 6 that he would have voted to certify Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential election victory but would have not voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. \u201cBy the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634682","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\/1634682","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634682\/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=1634682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}