John Fetterman is running for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania this coming November. In fact, Daily Kos has officially endorsed him! His opponent is television quack Mehmet Oz. Oz is sort of known as a guy that’s promoted all kinds of diet supplements over the years, using his connection to Oprah Winfrey to sell everything he gets paid to sell as a “miracle.”
Oz’s campaign has been what doctors might call a hot mess. Fetterman has been able to very easily repackage Oz’s campaign gaffes, his transparent carpetbagger tendencies, and his out of touch elitism and just present it back to the public. It is easy to be a good candidate when all you need to do is tell the truth about your opponent. In recent weeks, Oz’s campaign has been trying to do everything all at once. He’s tried to continue professing his allegiance to everything Trump while also trying to tell other voters that he isn’t as extreme in his fascism as Trump. Oz is just having the same problems many candidates in the Republican Party are having these days.
At the beginning of September, Donald Trump emerged from his golf cocoon to appear at a big Pennsylvania rally endorsing one of the GOP’s top Jan. 6 conspirators, Doug Mastriano, and the somehow more pathetic Oz. Trump’s rousing endorsement of Oz was overshadowed by Trump’s bizarre endorsement of Oz.
RELATED STORY: ‘We call that a veggie tray’: Fetterman responds to Mehmet Oz’s out of touch ‘crudités’ video
Campaign Action
After telling the crowd, “I believe in everyone in this crowd and show should you,” Oz gave way to Donald Trump. Trump began by making up a new “great” thing followed by what could be called an endorsement, maybe?
Here is what Donald Trump says verbatim:
“So we have a great record of endorsement, all of us together. It’s very close to 99%, and I endorse that guy, and I’m telling you, I will always tell you this, I’ll tell you the truth, and he is going to be a phenomenal representative for Pennsylvania. You gotta vote him in.”
“That guy” is Oz. Oz is running for Senate, not representative, but who cares! Donald Trump and this crowd have a 99% endorsement rate!
What is that, you ask?
It can’t be how effective Trump’s endorsements have been to electoral victories, so I think he must mean that almost 99% of the time, his crowd at this rally in Pennsylvania hears when he has indeed endorsed someone.
So, that’s a thing!
The midterm elections are only 56 days away, and there are MANY ways you can get out the Democratic vote. Check them all out at our Daily Kos GOTV page, and plug into the activity that matches your preferences & skillset.