Kathy Barnette's late surge has forced the Oz and McCormick campaigns and their allies to scramble in the final days before the Senate primary
PHILADELPHIA — For months, Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick barely laid a glove on Kathy Barnette.They’d made the calculation that Pennsylvania’s closely watched GOP Senate primary was a two-man race. After all, they had the most money, the highest name ID, and a dominant position in the polls.
Oz and McCormick weren’t the only ones caught off-guard by Barnette’s late surge. Many Republican political consultants at the state and national levels also didn’t see it coming. Though she had been slowly rising in the polls in recent weeks, the release of a Fox News survey Tuesday, showing her in a tight race with Oz and McCormick, confirmed her momentum was undeniable.
Trump is set to host a tele-rally with Oz Thursday night, a call that will go out to more than 100,000 Republican primary voters in Pennsylvania, according to a person familiar with the plans. “We’re going to make sure people are aware the more you learn about her, the scarier it gets,” said a person involved with Oz’s campaign.calling Barnette “Pennsylvania’s wackiest Senate candidate” and aiming to paint her as both out of touch with Republicans and unhinged: It featured clips of her talking about “white racism” and how “Black Americans feel disenfranchised.”
Honor Pennsylvania, a pro-McCormick super PAC, is expected to go on TV with an ad criticizing Barnette over “publicly available information” about her, said a person familiar with the group’s plans.blasting Barnette in a new TV ad “Conservative, America First voters have to question anyone who would take the endorsement of Pat Toomey’s Club for Growth, who clearly don’t support an America First agenda and have attacked President Trump,” said a prominent Pennsylvania Republican supporting McCormick.
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