From swing voters to disenchanted Republicans, Pennsylvanians are rallying to the side of John Fetterman as his campaign makes its final push to vanquish a carpetbagger quack that even has doctors sounding the alarm.
“Having someone like Dr. (Memhet) Oz running for a position in my state certainly would make sense for me to get involved that way, although I do try and promote other Senate races across the country. But Oz is the antithesis to what it is to be a caring, empathetic, and professional healthcare provider,” Dr. Ezekiel Tayler, a physician, anesthesiologist, and critical care physician in the Philadelphia area told WHYY recently.
Health law and policy expert Timothy Caulfield, author of the book "Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions writes in Scientific American: “Oz has few ties to Pennsylvania, a weakness that could impede his campaign. But even so, in these bunk-filled times, Oz the conservative—and inexplicably still-licensed—medical misinformation machine is an unsurprising GOP candidate.”
Even the leading group organizing traditional Republicans and conservatives has had enough of the smoke and mirrors act and is calling out Oz from behind the curtain that he hides his dark past behind.
“Unlike the character he plays on TV, Dr. Oz is actually a snake oil salesman pushing dubious health cures and using his status as a doctor to dupe his viewers,” said Reed Galen, co-founder of the Lincoln Project. “Someone this willing to sell out his medical ethics to obtain fame and wealth shows he has no principles. There is nothing Oz won’t do in the pursuit of power, making him a danger to our democratic institutions. He must be defeated in this election.”
As thousands of volunteers sweep across the cities, towns and rural areas of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support Fetterman through Election Day, it is looking more and more like Oz will have to resort to Trump’s failed and criminal Big Lie to try to steal the election, because the voters clearly aren’t going to elect him. What Oz has failed to realize is that Pennsylvania voters want action, not some TV carny-barker and his doctor-for-hire act.
“After that stroke, I got knocked down, but I got back up because I had to. And that's really the core value of our campaign,” John Fetterman said at a weekend rally in Philadelphia. “We are running for anyone that ever got knocked down that had to get back up, too. Any forgotten communities or community's towns that got left behind, that got knocked down, because they have to get back up."
Pennsylvanians this year are demanding a plan for fighting price-gouging and ripping off consumers and insisting on protecting the personal choices and rights of the citizens of the Commonwealth, but John Fetterman is the only candidate in the race for U.S. Senate that has produced those actual plans for tackling inflation and guaranteeing the protection of personal rights and freedoms for Pennsylvanians.
“Our economy is a mess because the rich (and) powerful don’t care about PA. They set the rules, weakened our supply chain, and spiked inflation,” Democrat John Fetterman said as he rolled out his inflation-fighting plan for Pennsylvania. “They’re too busy sending jobs overseas, ripping off American workers, and eating crudité.”
With a reputation from not running from a fight or a debate no matter the odds, John Fetterman has made it clear he is using the homestretch to call out Trump-darling and MAGA-wannabe Oz for refusing to disclose whether he has a plan for the economy, how to protect Social Security and Medicare, or guarantee Republicans won’t continue to strip rights away from woman, workers and minorities.
From the start of the election, Oz has demonstrated just how out-of-touch he is with his newly “adopted” Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but he still managed to stun Pennsylvanians last week when he declared local political officials should be among the people that decide whether a woman can have access to safe reproductive health care and choices.
“Oz doesn’t think I have that right to make the decision on my own. Mr. Oz doesn’t trust people with uteruses to make decision by themselves. John Fetterman believes that women are capable of making their own decisions. I’m on the side of the person that believes I can,” state Sen. Amanda Cappelletti (D-Montgomery) told PolticsPA.
“Mehmet Oz is an out of touch TV millionaire who referred to the U.S. Senate race as a ‘TV show’ and said abortion should be between ‘women, doctors, and local political leaders,’” Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson Jack Doyle said in a statement. “The future of Pennsylvania and this country are not a TV show that Mehmet Oz can use to boost his own bottom line and ego. Oz offered no ideas on how to help voters, and has no place representing Pennsylvania.”
Republicans continue to demonstrate they don’t have a plan to fix anything. What they have is a scheme to try to deceive voters. We are seeing it everywhere in Republican campaigns for House, Senate and state and local races all over the country. Oz, however, takes it to another level with his pseudoscience, home elixirs, and cruelty to animals – and experts have said so for years.
“Simply put, Oz is an entertainer. Many believe he is doing great harm by preventing or delaying proper diagnosis, providing false hope, and encouraging people to waste money on useless treatments,” wrote Dr. Steven J. Dell, chief medical editor of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today. “As far as I am concerned, the wackier he gets, the easier it is to logically debunk his claims.”
Written by Ken Bazinet. Ken is a respected, longtime national political reporter and freelance writer based in rural Maryland.