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Dr. Oz Launches Bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican

by BRITTANY BERNSTEIN

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician best known as the host of the Dr. Oz Show, announced Tuesday that he is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican.

“During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions. That’s why I am running for the U.S. Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal,” Oz wrote in a column published in the Washington Examiner.

The 61-year-old heart surgeon joins a crowded Republican primary field vying to succeed retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey. Businessman Jeff Bartos and former U.S. ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands have declared their candidacy for the seat, while David McCormick, a former official in the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush, is reportedly eyeing a run, according to CNN.

The candidates were thrown a curveball in recent weeks when GOP candidate Sean Parnell, who was endorsed by former President Trump, dropped out of the race…


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  1. fleabitis fleabitis December 1, 2021

    If Dr. Oz is a republican, then he’s of the same stripe as the Liz Cheney et al crowd. No sensible true conservative would vote for this moron for any public office higher than secretary of a small town sewer management committee. He is a raving Marxist.

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