Trump says Dr. Oz will ‘lose’ PA Senate race without major changes: Report

• Trump expressed concern over the state of Dr. Oz’s Pennsylvania Senate campaign in Rolling Stone.
• Trump questioned how the former talk show host was late in the election, acknowledging his high profile.
• According to the report, the former president asked allies in the race whether the polls were “ridiculous.”

Former President Donald Trump said Dr. Mehmet Oz would “win” the Pennsylvania Senate race if he didn’t change his campaign strategy, questioning how such a popular TV personality could be so late in the election, Rolling Stone reported. Report it.

In private conversations, Trump called for a course correction for Oz, who has seen his standing among Keystone State voters fade in recent months, according to two sources with the publication.

Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman currently boasts consistent leads in most major polls, returning to the campaign trail as recently as this month after recovering from a bruising month in May.

However, Fetterman has remained active on social media full time, targeting Oz for campaign missteps and mocking him for his longtime ties to New Jersey.

Democratic candidate “Jersey Shore” alum Nicole Lavallee, better known as Snooki, is leaving the Garden State for Senate in Pennsylvania, putting Oz on the campaign trail.

Trump reportedly wasn’t happy with Oz’s problem because he wondered how the cardiothoracic surgeon and former talk show host’s sky-high reputation would fare in the election.

According to one of the sources who spoke to Rolling Stone, the former president asked if the referendum was “ridiculous.”

“This issue of the election is not ‘rigged,’ there are major problems with this campaign and this candidate in particular,” a source told the publication about the Oz campaign.

The source added that Trump thinks Oz’s loss to Fetterman is “extremely embarrassing” because the former president has a low opinion of the Democratic nominee.

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Trump reportedly says Oz’s campaign strategy ‘doesn’t make sense’

According to another source, Trump thought Rolling Stone should withhold his endorsement of Oz.

Trump has endorsed several other candidates seeking his endorsement, including former hedge fund CEO David McCormick. (McCormick narrowly lost the GOP primary in Oz by 951 votes, more than 1.3 million votes.)

” of [former] The president used words like ‘horrible’ and ‘terrible’ and ‘nonsense’ to describe how Dr. Oz was campaigning against Jon Fetterman over the summer, another source told Rolling Stone. [Trump] First he started asking me and other people: ‘Is he going to lose?’ I’m sure I’m not the only one telling him he will if something big doesn’t change.

On Friday, Trump announced that he will travel to Pennsylvania on Sept. 3 to run for Oz alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.

Trump spokeswoman Taylor Budovich dismissed the Rolling Stone report as “fake news” in a statement Friday.

“Dr. Oz has been on the campaign trail pushing an America First agenda and working to win the support of every Pennsylvanian. In contrast, John Fetterman continues to advocate for radical policies that are destroying America,” he said.

The Senate race is an open seat due to the retirement of two-term GOP Sen. Pat Toomey; It remains the most promising pick for Democrats this year.

Despite President Joe Biden’s middling approval ratings in Pennsylvania, Fetterman has spent years building a personal image independent of national political influence and has campaigned extensively in rural and Democratic communities in recent decades.

Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg told Rolling Stone that the former president should have avoided endorsing the primary earlier this year.

“President Trump has at least served as an independent in the primary,” he said. “Instead, he wholeheartedly supported one of the most flawed Republicans on the national level.”