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Movement: Another Poll Shows Oz Momentum in Pennsylvania

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  September 30, 2022 1:01 PM

We've been increasingly focused on this race because it's one of the two-to-four contests that will likely determine control of the United States Senate.  On one level, it's just basic math.  Each party desperately wants that seat, as Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell vie for the majority.  On another level, in my view (and as someone who has not exactly been an enthusiastic Oz fan), Democrat John Fetterman does not belong anywhere near the upper chamber of Congress.  Yes, his lack of transparency around his health problems, having suffered a stroke, is an issue.  But it's his ideology that is far more concerning than his slovenly appearance, phony working man persona (working men typically work, and don't often mooch off their parents for a big chunk of their income well into their 40's), his health setbacks, or even his objectively poor governing outcomes as a mayor. He's a hardcore leftist, much further out on the fringe than either Oz or the Democrat running for governor (who's up big in the polls).  We're actually seeing a number of prominent crossover endorsements -- Oz/Shapiro -- for that reason.  The tightening continues, and one campaign clearly has momentum:  

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Fetterman has lacked the wherewithal to respond effectively to some of the powerful critiques against him, partly due to his health struggles, but also because his record is what it is.  Now that he's losing ground in public opinion surveys, Fetterman's campaign is trying to run away from his long established record of being exceptionally soft on crime.  They're trying to deny things that he's said out loud, on tape, hoping that Democratic groups like Politifact will keep debasing themselves by running cover for their candidate.  Team Fetterman also making eyebrow-raising moves like this:

Amid criticism for being soft on crime, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman removed a reference to Black Lives Matter on his campaign website.  Archived versions show a section under the “issues” category that touted his commitment to BLM...His campaign said the section was removed during an overhaul of the campaign site...In the last several years Fetterman has taken a strong stand in support of BLM. As Julio reported, he even downplayed or excused the destructive riots that ensued after George Floyd’s death in 2020.

With crime percolating as a top issue -- it's gotten especially bad in Philadelphia, where the Soros-backed, pro-criminal District Attorney is attempting to blame Trump and conservatives for his own historic and deadly failures (read this thread) -- Oz is pressing the case aggressively:


Perhaps Fetterman's shockingly lax attitudes on crime and justice, and his politically calculated (but maybe expiring) full embrace of BLM, is an overcompensation for this episode:

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I'll leave you with a man who desperately wants to be president echoing Philly's DA and spinning that rampant crime is actually a Republican problem, or something: