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☆ John Fetterman wins Senate race in Pennsylvania, NBC News projects
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailJohn Fetterman wins Senate race in Pennsylvania, NBC News projectsDemocrat John Fetterman has won the Senate race in Pennsylvania, beating GOP candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, according to NBC News projections.

☆ Photos show disappointment, shock at Republican election night events as 'red wave' never appears
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Photos show disappointed Republicans when the expected election night "red wave" never arrived. In one battleground state, Georgia's open Senate seat is still pending as it heads to a runoff. Photos from Republican election night events across the US show widespread disappointment as candidates and their constituents awaited a "red wave" that never came. Another major setback for Republicans Tuesday night came when Democratic candidate John Fetterman won Pennsylvania's open Senate seat against Dr. Mehmet Oz, his Republican opponent. So far, Democrats have picked up one seat in the Senate, leaving the power balance at 49-48 in favor of the Republicans.

☆ Shares of Truth Social merger partner fall after Trump's candidates underwhelm in midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This photo illustration shows an image of former President Donald Trump next to a phone screen that is displaying the Truth Social app, in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022. Shares of the blank check company set to take Trump Media and its Truth Social platform public fell sharply Wednesday after candidates endorsed by the former president disappointed in high-profile midterm election races. Another presidential run could drive traffic to Trump's Truth Social platform, as the ex-president has agreed to post exclusively on the social media platform for eight hours before posting it anywhere else. DWAC has been working to secure enough shareholder support to extend the deadline for the merger with Trump Media until Sept. 2023, with the vote being pushed back multiple times. The merger also faces a criminal probe into possible securities violations over discussions that took place between DWAC and Trump Media prior to the deal announcement.

The polls will close over a seven-hour period on Tuesday, starting at 6 p.m. Eastern time in parts of Indiana and Kentucky and ending at 1 a.m. in western Alaska. Here is a guide to when the first polls close in each state, and what races to watch at each point. Show times in: Eastern Central Mountain Pacific Alaska HawaiiPolls open First polls closing First polls closed6 p.m. P.T. Not all polls in each state close at the same time, and polls in some areas may close earlier than shown if all registered voters in that polling district have already voted. There is also an unexpectedly competitive Senate race in Utah between Senator Mike Lee, a Republican, and Evan McMullin, an independent candidate.

☆ January 6 police officer Michael Fanone backs Fetterman in new video, says Oz 'filled his campaign ranks with election deniers'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former DC police officer Michael Fanone is backing Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman for Senate. Fanone accused Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz of filling his campaign with "election deniers." Former Washington Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone says that makes him unfit for office. "Oz has filled his campaign ranks with election deniers and even participants in the January 6th attack on our Capitol," Michael Fanone said in a video released Monday by the campaign of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. As reported by Rolling Stone, an Oz campaign coordinator, Lee Snover, admitted that on January 6 she went as far as "the Capitol steps."

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☆ Live updates: Election Day approaches as voters cast early ballots in races that could determine House and Senate control
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Dawn Kopecki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Voters are casting early ballots in the midterm elections that will determine control of the House and Senate, as candidates try to muster last-minute support. Kathy Hochul, who is facing an unexpectedly tight race against Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin. Another former president, Bill Clinton, campaigned with Hochul in Brooklyn on Saturday, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Voters have already cast more than 42 million ballots in the midterm elections as of Monday morning. Election officials and U.S. prosecutors will be keeping a close watch on the polls for any signs of voter intimidation on Tuesday.

☆ Obama ripped into Dr. Oz's history of bogus medical claims while campaigning for Fetterman, calling him a 'snake oil' salesman
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Barack Obama campaigned for John Fetterman in Pennsylvania on Saturday. He said if Oz would "peddle snake oil" to make money, then he'd do it to get elected. Obama was in Pittsburgh campaigning for Oz's Democratic opponent, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. "If somebody is willing to peddle snake oil to make a buck, then he's probably willing to sell snake oil to get elected," Obama said. Obama was campaigning for Fetterman — whose speech has been impacted by a stroke he had in May — ahead of the election on Tuesday.

☆ Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — finally debuting a nickname, 'Ron DeSanctimonious' — as the 2 popular Republicans could face off in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump on Saturday mocked DeSantis with a nickname, something he's often done for political enemies. DeSantis also won't be appearing at Trump's Florida rally on Sunday, in an apparent snub. Trump was referencing a poll that showed he was in the lead among other potential Republican nominees when he offhandedly called DeSantis "Ron DeSanctimonious." Neither Trump nor DeSantis has announced plans to run for president in 2024, though both are rumored to be potential candidates. Aside from DeSantis, Trump will be appearing alongside just about everyone who's anyone in Florida GOP politics.

☆ Oprah Winfrey backs John Fetterman over Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Oprah Winfrey speaks on stage during The Robin Hood Foundation's 2018 benefit at Jacob Javitz Center on May 14, 2018 in New York City. Oprah Winfrey said Thursday she would vote for Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman over Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in the must-win Senate race in Pennsylvania. Herself a talk-show superstar and media titan, Winfrey was the first guest on Oz's early-2000s show "Second Opinion," and she invited Oz on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" regularly for years. Greg Abbott, as well as Stacey Abrams, the Democrat running to unseat Republican Gov.

☆ Republicans' push to kill abortion rights has Democratic women in Pennsylvania rushing to knock on doors and drive people to the polls ahead of the midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade this summer pushed Pennsylvania women to action. Fetterman, have worked to keep abortion rights in the conversation. "The future of abortion rights and women's freedom is on the line in this race," Fetterman wrote in a letter he posted online on October 30. Canvasser Toth said she's encountered supporters across generations, billing women and men in their 20s as "very engaged" on abortion rights. Toth told Insider, adding that the 27-year-old woman said, "It's hard to think about any other issue until this one is addressed."

☆ Democrats hold slim leads over GOP rivals in key Senate races in Pa., Ga. and Ariz., new poll shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The survey shows Democrats hold slim leads over their Republican opponents in Senate races in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia, while the two competitors in Nevada are locked in a dead heat. A Republican-controlled Senate could sink President Joe Biden's hopes for passing major legislation in the final two years of his first term. That result, taken from 604 likely voters between Oct. 24 and Oct. 26, fell outside the poll's margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. The pollsters surveyed 885 likely voters in Nevada between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24; the results carry a 4.2-percentage-point margin of error. They also have pinned high inflation, a global phenomenon in the last two years, on Biden's and the Democrats' policies.

☆ Mehmet Oz: John Fetterman's policies on drugs and crime are illogical
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Dr. Mehmet Oz | Dr. Mehmet Oz Is The Republican Nominee For U.S. Senate In Pennsylvania. He Lives In Montgomery County | Is A Cardiothoracic Surgeon | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Dangerous drugs and violent crime are plaguing the state of Pennsylvania. At a roundtable discussion with community members in Germantown, another Philadelphia neighborhood, I heard numerous stories of individuals losing loved ones to violent crime. Fetterman has made clear his support for Oregon’s measure 110, which decriminalized drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Measure 110 has also been linked to a massive increase in violent crime. The crisis ravaging vulnerable communities like Kensington results from ineffective drug policies pushed by elected officials who care more about caring than fixing.

PHILADELPHIA/WILMINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will make a rare appearance together on the campaign trail in Philadelphia on Friday as the duo seeks to boost Pennsylvania Democrats in the closing stretch of the Nov. 8 midterm election. Their visit - Biden's 19th to the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania since taking office - comes less than two weeks until Election Day. Biden will return to Pennsylvania again next week with former President Barack Obama, underscoring the urgency Democrats feel to replace retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey. Biden and Harris will speak at the Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s annual Independence Dinner, a major state party event expected to raise more than $1 million. Biden’s 2020 rival, Trump, and his potential adversary in 2024, is expected to campaign in Pennsylvania next weekend as well.

☆ Fetterman slams Big Oil for surging profits and failure to invest in new supply
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Democrat John Fetterman scolded the oil industry on Thursday for reaping massive profits and argued companies are rewarding shareholders instead of aggressively investing in new supply. “Big Oil just made another round of record profits by gouging Americans at the gas pump,” Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. The oil industry is a notoriously boom-to-bust business. Gas prices climbed to a record high of $5.07 a gallon in June. Fetterman’s campaign called out his opponent’s ties to the oil industry, pointing to campaign donations from oil and gas companies to Dr. Mehmet Oz’s campaign.

☆ Fetterman campaign says it raised $1 million in 3 hours after rough Pennsylvania Senate debate with Oz
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

John Fetterman's campaign said Wednesday it raised more than $1 million in just three hours following the Democratic Senate candidate's debate with his Republican rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz. The "unprecedented" haul demonstrates "deep grassroots enthusiasm" for Fetterman, his campaign said. "It's clear that the people of Pennsylvania have John's back in this race," Fetterman campaign manager Brendan McPhillips said in a press release announcing the post-debate fundraising windfall. Each candidate also repeatedly accused the other of lying, echoing the aggressively rancorous tone that has defined the pivotal Pennsylvania Senate race for months. Fetterman and Oz are competing to succeed GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, who is retiring at the end of the term.

☆ Mehmet Oz says abortion should be decided between 'women, doctors, local political leaders' during debate with John Fetterman
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dr. Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman faced off in their first and only debate Tuesday night. The candidates clashed on abortion, with Fetterman saying it should be a nationally protected right. Oz said he does not support a federal ban but argued states should be able to prohibit the procedure. In 2019, he defended Roe v. Wade, saying that as a physician he had personally witnessed women who suffered "really traumatic events" from undergoing illegal, "coat-hanger" abortions." Democratic candidates, including Fetterman, have heavily campaigned on abortion rights in an effort to expand the party's House and Senate majorities and codify Roe v. Wade into law.

☆ GOP groups spend $6.2 million in Oz-Fetterman Senate race in Pennsylvania as polls tighten in final two weeks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mehmet Oz, US Republican Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, speaks during a campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Two PACs, American Crossroads and the Faith and Power PAC, are respectively pouring $3 million and $3.2 million into Pennsylvania. Both groups are linked to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The spending, first reported by Politico, will fund ads beginning Tuesday that will last through Election Day on Nov. 8, a spokesman for the Senate Leadership Fund told CNBC. It also came days after the Senate Leadership Fund abruptly canceled millions of dollars it had reserved in another Senate race in New Hampshire.

☆ Oz, Fetterman clash early in Pennsylvania Senate debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Pennsylvania Senate Democratic hopeful John Fetterman and his Republican rival Dr. Mehmet Oz came out of the gate swinging Tuesday night in their only debate just two weeks before Election Day. Fetterman, the state's lieutenant governor, in his opening statement said that if Oz "is on TV, he's lying," calling it "the Oz rule." The Democrat is recovering from a stroke he suffered in May and used closed-captioning during the debate. The hourlong debate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, comes as Oz, the celebrity doctor endorsed by Trump, has closed his polling deficit with Fetterman in the final weeks of the race. The Oz campaign, aided by tens of millions of dollars from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell's PAC, has bombarded Fetterman with ads accusing him of being soft on crime and too far left for Pennsylvania.

☆ Republican gains in key states signal bad news for Democrats ahead of midterms, new polls show
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Republican candidates appear to be making gains in the final sprint to the November midterms, with new election forecasts in key swing states and partisan strongholds flashing warning signs for Democrats. Republican Senate hopeful J.D. Even in reliably blue states, Democrats' slim congressional majorities are under threat. The pollster surveyed 649 likely Texas voters between Oct. 16 and Oct. 19, and carries a plus or minus 5.1 percentage point margin of error. Accordingly, Democrats' chances of holding the Senate now look much tighter, according to FiveThirtyEight's tracker.

☆ Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz has loaned his campaign an additional $1 million, federal filing shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Dr. Oz has loaned an additional $1 million to his Senate campaign, according to new FEC filings. Oz, the Republican nominee, has loaned has campaign over $22 million over the course of the race. John Fetterman, raised $22 million from donors in the third quarter of 2022. In total, Oz has contributed $22 million toward his campaign and raised roughly $9 million in the third quarter. Governor John Fetterman, raised $22 million in the third quarter of 2002, according to Federal Election Commission records.

☆ John Fetterman 'has no work restrictions' as he recovers from stroke, PA Senate hopeful's doctor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

John Fetterman "has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office" as the Democratic Senate candidate recovers from a debilitating stroke, his primary care physician said. Fetterman suffered the stroke in May, just before winning the Democratic nomination to compete for Toomey's seat. The stroke took Fetterman off the campaign trail for three months. Chen's evaluation of Fetterman "must be crushing news for Oz, who has been rooting against John's recovery and staked his entire campaign on it," top Fetterman campaign aide Rebecca Katz said in a statement. He has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office," Chen said.

WisconsinDemocrats see Republican Sen. Ron Johnson as a vulnerable incumbent. Barnes has espoused progressive views in office, but his Senate campaign has focused more on pocketbook issues such as inflation and taxes. Vance appears locked in a tight Senate race against Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, despite running in a red-leaning state that Trump won handily in 2020. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan's approval ratings have fallen, including among unaffiliated voters who make up a major chunk of the state's electorate. FloridaFormer Orlando police chief and Democratic Rep. Val Demings aims to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.

☆ RNC chair predicts the Senate will be narrowly split following the midterms, Oz will surpass Fetterman, and the GOP will retire Pelosi as House Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

She also said that the GOP will "retire" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She told Decker she thinks the Senate will be very tight. The RNC chair added she's optimistic about Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, despite him trailing Democratic candidate John Fetterman in recent polling. When asked about the allegations surrounding Herschel Walker, the Georgia Republican nominee for Senate, McDaniel told Decker he's been "very forthcoming" about his struggles with mental health. According to FiveThirtyEight, Republicans are favored to win the House while Democrats are slightly favored to win the Senate.

☆ Biden to host fundraiser with John Fetterman in Philadelphia as Senate race with Dr. Oz tightens
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden will host a fundraiser with Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman in Philadelphia next week, a senior administration official told CNBC on Tuesday. But Oz, a celebrity doctor backed by former President Donald Trump, is still trailing Fetterman, according to polls of the pivotal Senate race. The election in the swing state, where Biden narrowly beat Trump in 2020, could decide which party controls the Senate. Oz's campaign, in a statement on news of the fundraiser, aimed to blame both Biden and Fetterman for high gas prices and crime. "The Biden-Fetterman agenda has given us higher prices at the pump and more-dangerous streets," said the statement from Oz campaign spokeswoman Brittany Yanick.

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