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☆ Some Democrats dip a toe in TikTok as most Republicans stay away
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Covers Tech For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

NBC News found that nine Democratic candidates in this year’s 35 Senate races are posting to TikTok, while three Republican Senate candidates are using it. In the most competitive Senate races, four of the Democrats are using TikTok: Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, former state Chief Justice Cheri Beasley in North Carolina, Lt. Gov. The only Republican in a competitive Senate race using TikTok is Oz, who began posting there in 2019 before he left his television show for politics. “TikTok does have such widespread use,” Madison Horn, the Democratic nominee for one of two Senate races in Oklahoma, said in a phone interview. Bob Ellsworth, a Republican advertising consultant, said TikTok has certainly changed how Republicans campaign even if they’re not on the app itself.

☆ John Fetterman, Mehmet Oz Meet for Lone Debate in Pennsylvania Senate Race
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Aaron Zitner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

EXTON, Pa.—Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman meet Tuesday night for their only debate in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck Senate race, a contest that gives Democrats their strongest chance to pick up a Republican-held seat in a year when either party could win control of the 50-50 Senate. The debate, to be held in a Harrisburg TV studio at 8 p.m. ET, will offer many voters their first look at Mr. Fetterman’s public-speaking abilities since he suffered a stroke in May that removed him from the campaign trail for three months.

☆ Mehmet Oz, John Fetterman Clash Over Crime, Abortion in Pennsylvania Senate Debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Aaron Zitner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz clashed over crime, fracking and abortion during a testy Pennsylvania Senate debate Tuesday that featured frequent verbal stumbles by Mr. Fetterman. The debate put the communication challenges related to a stroke Mr. Fetterman suffered earlier this year in the foreground of one of the year’s most consequential elections for the Senate. The debate between Mr. Oz, the celebrity heart doctor, and Mr. Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, was a highly anticipated event in the neck-and-neck Senate contest, which offers the Democratic Party its best chance to pick up a seat now held by Republicans in the 50-50 chamber.

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s Democratic lieutenant governor, will face Republican Mehmet Oz, a celebrity TV doctor, in the only debate of the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey. Debate organizers and the campaigns have agreed to use closed-captioning to allow Fetterman to read questions and answers spoken and transcribed instantly. Another Oz campaign aide sent an email calling attention to the Fetterman team's memo. Oz, a heart surgeon, had used the debate calendar as a political weapon to call attention to Fetterman’s stroke and recovery. "I feel like I’m gonna get better and better — every day," Fetterman told NBC News in an interview this month.

☆ Oz, Fetterman Clash Over Crime, Abortion in Pennsylvania Senate Debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Aaron Zitner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Republican Mehmet Oz accused Democrat John Fetterman of supporting criminals, while Mr. Fetterman said his opponent had moved for personal gain only recently into the state he wants to represent, as the two Pennsylvania Senate candidates met Tuesday night for their only debate in an election that could decide which party wins control of the Senate. The debate between Mr. Oz, the celebrity heart doctor, and Mr. Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, was a highly anticipated event in the neck-and-neck Senate contest, which offers the Democratic Party its best chance to pick up a seat now held by Republicans in the 50-50 chamber. It gave many voters their first look at Mr. Fetterman’s public speaking abilities since he suffered a stroke in May that removed him from the campaign trail for three months.

☆ Fetterman's health in focus as he squares off with Oz in U.S. Senate debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The debate offers the Democrat's biggest opportunity yet to prove his detractors wrong in front of a statewide audience. A Fetterman campaign official told Reuters that the campaign has realistic expectations of the debate. The Oz campaign did not respond to requests for comment. Oz argues that Fetterman’s record of seeking lenIency for criminals as head of the state’s Board of Pardons shows he will make Pennsylvania less safe. "The Oz campaign has been strategically smart," said Chris Borick, a pollster at Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College.

☆ 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.

☆ John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz to face off on the debate stage for the first and only time in the high-stakes battle for Pennsylvania's Senate seat
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz will debate for the first and only time on Tuesday night. The Pennsylvania election could determine which party controls the US Senate. Fetterman and Oz are widely expected to discuss their positions on top voter concerns, including inflation and abortion. During the debate, Fetterman will rely on closed captioning to accommodate an auditory processing disorder he developed from the stroke. "On one hand, you could say that Oz is a weaker candidate than Fetterman, although Fetterman is hardly perfect himself," Kondik continued.

☆ 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.

☆ Fetterman and Oz prepare for debate in close race for Pennsylvania Senate seat
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | 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 EmailFetterman and Oz prepare for debate in close race for Pennsylvania Senate seatNBC's Steve Kornacki joins Shep Smith to discuss the latest polling from the Pennsylvania Senate race, and whether celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz can defeat Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman in the midterm election.

☆ Can liberals win tough Senate races? Fetterman and Barnes hope to prove it
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

WASHINGTON — At stake in this year’s key Senate races is not just the balance of power between the parties, but within them. Now this year's Senate races represent one of the toughest electoral challenges yet for the modern progressive movement. These groups will back progressives in open Senate races, but have yet to recruit someone to run against an incumbent Democrat. But both Fetterman and Barnes then went on to be elected lieutenant governor, statewide victories that helped them convince party insiders they could win U.S. Senate races. John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, greets supporters at Nether Providence Elementary School, in Wallingford on Oct. 15.

☆ 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.

☆ Insider asked 38 Republicans whether they're concerned about growing anti-Semitic sentiments in their party. Their responses included silence, deflection, and rehashing old statements.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Insider reached out to House Republican leaders, GOP senators auditioning for the 2024 presidential race, the Republican National Committee, retired GOP lawmakers, seasoned Republican strategists and former Donald Trump administration officials about this disturbing phenomenon. The non-respondents included RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, former Vice President Mike Pence, National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Rick Scott, House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik, Florida Gov. Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, lashed out at West, Trump and House Republican "idiots" cheering on their reprehensible behavior. "You can say that his particular words in this particular case are not antisemitic," Rosen said Tuesday during Commentary's daily podcast. Nor have they convinced House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan to quit hailing West and Trump as personal heroes.

“I think it’s going to be significant,” Chuck Coughlin, an Arizona Republican pollster, said of the third-party impact on key Senate races. Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian National Committee, said it’s not her party's job to protect Republican candidates who are alienating voters. "If Republicans fear that Libertarians are going to be spoilers, Republicans need to run more liberty-minded candidates," McArdle told NBC News. Much attention has been paid to the level of support third-party candidates can wrestle from the major party contenders in recent election cycles, particularly on the presidential level. "We have to wait to see the melt on these third-party candidates," he said.

☆ Democrat John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz battle for an open US Senate seat in Pennsylvania
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Grace Panetta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz are facing off for US Senate in Pennsylvania. Fetterman is the state's lieutenant governor and Oz is a celebrity doctor and first-time candidate. Pennsylvania Senate candidatesFetterman and Oz are vying to succeed GOP Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, a battleground Senate race critical to both parties' fortunes in the US Senate — and a seat Democrats are aiming to flip back from Republican control. Fetterman, a progressive, is centering his campaign around being a reliable 51st vote for Democratic priorities in the Senate. Oz has raised $34.9 million, spent $32.2 million, and has $2.5 million in cash on hand, as of September 30.

☆ Fetterman 'has no work restrictions,' but auditory processing issues continue, doctor says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, saw his doctor, Clifford Chen, on Friday. The doctor also said Fetterman's "speech was normal and he continues to exhibit symptoms of an auditory processing disorder which can come across as hearing difficulty. Governor Fetterman is well and shows strong commitment to maintaining good fitness and health practices. He has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office," Chen wrote. The Democratic lieutenant governor recently spoke with NBC News about the race and his recovery.

☆ U.S. Senate candidate Fetterman releases doctor letter saying he is OK
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman speaks during a joint rally with Democratic candidate for Governor Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro for Service Employees International Union workers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania released a doctor's letter on Wednesday that said he was recovering well from a stroke and has no work restrictions. Governor is recovering well from his stroke and his health has continued to improve," Dr. Clifford Chen wrote in a letter released by Fetterman's campaign. Chen said in the letter that Fetterman is committed to maintaining good fitness and health practices. "He has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office," the doctor said.

☆ 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.

☆ John Fetterman releases updated medical report that says he's 'recovering well from his stroke' as Mehmet Oz attacks his health
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

John Fetterman's doctor said the candidate "is recovering well from his stroke," in an updated medical report. The Oz campaign had been urging Fetterman to release new medical records. Fetterman, who suffered from a stroke in May, has come under attack by his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz in recent weeks over his health. Last month, Oz released his own medical report after an annual checkup, in which his doctor stated he was in "excellent health." Fetterman's doctor said while the lieutenant governor "continues to exhibit symptoms of an auditory processing disorder" he "spoke intelligently without cognitive deficits" in his check-up.

☆ John Fetterman says defunding the police 'was always absurd'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

John Fetterman said in a recent interview that defunding the police "was always absurd." "It was always absurd to defund the police," Fetterman said. When asked about Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke's desire to take a look at the constitutionality of some stop-and-frisk policies, Fetterman spoke of the importance of making sure any policy decisions would not be "abused." Most Democrats — including President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — have rejected the concept of defunding police departments. Fetterman is running against Republican Mehmet Oz in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.

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.

☆ Old clip from 2009 resurfaces of Dr. Oz telling Jimmy Kimmel that he tried to stick a needle in his sister's head when they were kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In an old clip from 2009, Oz told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about his "fascination" with needles. Oz said he tried to stick a needle in his sister's head when they were children. "I have to say, you might be one of the craziest people we've ever had on the show," Kimmel told Oz. It's unclear which of Oz's sisters the senate candidate was referring to in the old Kimmel clip. Kimmel also called Oz a "testicle fondler" for touching his crotch during a segment on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

☆ Democrats in key Senate races have more cash to spend than Republicans in the final midterm push
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Democrats running in some of the country's closest Senate races headed into the final weeks of their campaigns with a cash edge over their Republican rivals, according to newly released Federal Election Commission records. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in many of the most important Senate races, outside GOP groups such as the Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund have helped to close the gap. Fetterman leads GOP candidate Mehmet Oz by more than 3 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics. Warnock also leads Republican Herschel Walker by an average of about 3 percentage points, according to the site. The Nevada incumbent trails Republican Adam Laxalt by an average of just under 2 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics.

☆ Obama praises John Fetterman as someone with whom you can 'have a normal conversation,' says the Pennsylvania Democrat has 'some sense of how the rest of America lives'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Barack Obama said John Fetterman has "some sense of how the rest of America lives." During an episode of "Pod Save America," Obama lauded the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate hopeful. Obama said people feel as though Fetterman's views are "informed by his real-life experiences." And former President Barack Obama on a recent podcast praised Fetterman as an authentic messenger who is able to connect with ordinary people. —Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 15, 2022Obama, in lauding Fetterman, went on to say that there are "certain values that he cares about" and that "he cares about people."

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