Posted on 05/09/2022 10:47:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
With two weeks to go before the hotly contested Pennsylvania Republican Primary, a new poll shows that race is now a statistical 3-way tie between Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kathy Barnette, and Dave McCormick.
Kathy Barnette is surging due to her debate performance and Oz's heavy negatives with GOP voters pic.twitter.com/LxQLyVWuFK— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) May 9, 2022
According to the new Trafalgar Group poll, Trump endorsed Oz was at 24.5 percent, Barnette was at 23.2 percent and McCormick was at 21.6 percent in the race to be the nominee for the seat of retiring GOP Senator Pat Toomey.
The survey was conducted between May 6 and May 8. The poll consisted of 1080 likely 2022 GOP primary voters, had a response rate of 1.44 percent and a margin of error of 2.99 percent.
Pundits theorized that Barnette is surging due to her recent debate performance and Oz was falling due to his heavy negatives with Republican voters. During the debate last Wednesday, Barnette spoke about her mother, who was only 11-years-old when she was raped by a man 10 years her senior. Barnette was the result of that rape, and her gratitude to her mother for carrying her and giving her life was clear.
"Whether this was a leak or whether this was a tactical operation we will soon figure out," she said in response to a question about the recent, unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
"One thing is clear, I am so very grateful that our nation is now having a very important conversation, and that is the most important conversation, that is about life. I am the byproduct of a rape," she said.
"My mother was 11-years-old when I was conceived. My father was 21. I was not just a lump of cells. As you can see, I'm still not just a lump of cells. My life has value. And that is one of the reasons why it was so very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race." Barnette said she had seen Oz, on "numerous occasions," including on podcast The Breakfast Club, where in 2019 he said that six weeks into a woman's pregnancy, a baby's heart is just "a cell" with "little electrical changes." Oz is a surgeon who has performed operations on infants.
Receipts: https://t.co/8gZSOCKgCW— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) December 7, 2021
"And the other thing is this whole thing about heart beating," Oz said at the time. "I mean, they're electrical changes at six weeks, but the heart's not beating … If you were to say, starting when we can hear the heart, like when the heart's really doing something, that'd be different. That's not six weeks, though."
Barnette asked Oz if he had changed his position on that. Oz did not say whether he had or had not changed his view but said, "One of the toughest endorsements you could ever get is from your mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is an ordained minister. She wrote a lot of the pro-life literature in Montgomery County where we live, and she certainly understands that I'm pro-life."
"As a heart surgeon I've operated on small children few days old and witnessed the majesty of their hearts pounding blood even though it's ill because I'm operating not to those bodies. I would never think of harming that child or even nine months earlier because life starts at conception," Oz said.
Republican candidate Kathy Barnette receives an ovation after her closing statement. pic.twitter.com/kffNrocGhM— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 5, 2022
In her closing statements, Barnette said "I am you Pennsylvania and like you I believe this is the greatest country that has ever existed, but like you, I believe our country is in trouble. I believe that America that allowed me to claw my way out of dire poverty is about to come to a close."
"This time you do not have to hold your nose to vote for the lesser of two evils. I am in a statistical tie for first place, so voting for me is not throwing your vote away."
Here is @Kathy4Truth slamming BLM and Defund the Police in the summer of 2020 during the middle of the riots pic.twitter.com/3b7HOzQ96v— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) May 9, 2022
"Listen, go to my Facebook page by Kathy Barnett for Senate and you will see exactly what I'm doing today that I will amp up tomorrow after this race. You will see me in rooms full of black people changing their voter registration from Democrat to Republican, you will see me downtown and Chinatown. They are mine. You will see people ushering me in front of a roomful of Amish people with them introducing me as someone with their values."
"Not only do I have a grasp on our own base, but I can go into every nook and cranny and take the votes that we need in order to really be better than in the general election. So, let's go do this." Barnette received a massive round of applause after the remarks.
I’ll be voting for Barnette, the Turk can pound sand.
Watch, if Barnette gets the nomination, Karl Rove and the Bush League Republicans will assist in electing the Democrat.
They’ve done it repeatedly.
Good
Fantastic 👍
I saw her on TV this morning. She is a winner.
Oh and for the record, Oz did not stumble, he’s always been an empty suit.. she just flat out bitch slapped him in the debates...
Oz nor McCormick are solid strong cadidates... if either of them are the nominee and win, its only because a ham sandwich with an R beside its name would have one.
Fetterman will absolutely destroy either one of them on stage...
There is a red wave coming this fall, no doubt, but if there was 1 race I think the trend could be bucked it would without question Fetterman vs either one of these two... I would not be surprised at all if either on of them are the nominee that, even with the red wave that’s coming, the Dems may indeed win this seat.
maybe rank and file republicans in PA (given the absolute travesty and disaster of 2020) have finally had a belly full of gope groomed candidates, we’ll see.
Perhaps, as Trump likes backing winners, he will unendorse—which would likely be enough to make things no longer close.
would have won, damn long day
She is solid. Really solid.
Barnette is the only choice if you truly support the constitution.
I’d support Barnette without hesitation, but I don’t think the Bush League Republicans would have to try very hard to defeat her. She may have a strong base of support, but it is likely to comprise no more than 20% of the voters in PA. She has a very tough hill to climb to win a statewide election in this state.
Anyone but globohomo RINO Bush / Mcconnel stooge Mccormick!
Great to hear!!! This woman is a winner!!
Nice!
at the rally he definitely called out McCormick as a loser but I don’t think he said anything about Kathy. Perhaps he’s reserving an endorsement for her, just in case.
"You will encourage the GOP to eat children, as we do."
Then you clearly have not listened to “the turk”
And as usual your post has no content, just name-calling.
Oz didn’t stumble yet.
Oz is up 2% from the last Trafalgar poll.
Dave McCormick stumbled a little, falls back to third in Trafalgar.
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