Sources: Internal Polling Shows Oz 10 Points Ahead of McCormick in Pennsylvania

Internal polling shows Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz surging past rival David McCormick by 10 points, according to sources close to the candidate’s campaign not authorized to talk to the press.

McCormick, a former hedge-fund executive and former undersecretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush, spent several weeks as the frontrunner in the Republican primary that will be decided on May 17, but recent public polls showed Oz quickly closing that gap.

Radio host and The Pennsylvania Daily Star Publisher John Fredericks, an early endorser of Oz’s campaign, attributes much of the momentum the renowned heart surgeon and broadcaster has experienced to the endorsement he received from former President Donald Trump earlier this month. 

“The Trump endorsement of Dr. Oz is the biggest game-changer of any current race in America,” Fredericks said. “Oz has been helping people for 30 years, both on the operating table and the kitchen table. McCormick has spent the last 30 years orchestrating taxpayer-funded bailouts for his cronies, shipping good-paying manufacturing jobs for Pennsylvanians to China and serving as the Chinese Communist Party’s U.S. hedge-fund financier.”

The former president expressed his enthusiasm for the Senate candidate in a tele-rally Friday evening, calling this contest “one of the most critical primary elections in the country this year.” Trump touted Oz’s support for tax reduction, deregulation, the right to life, the right to bear arms and toughness against Chinese mercantilism and hegemony. 

Sources close to the Trump orbit said Trump is considering a Pennsylvania rally for Oz on the first Saturday in May.

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Bradley Vasoli is managing editor of The Pennsylvania Daily Star. Follow Brad on Twitter at @BVasoli. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Mehmet Oz” by Mehmet Oz. Photo “Dave McCormick” by Dave McCormick. 

 

 

 

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