Pa. Senate race no longer tossup as Fetterman memes zero in on Oz’s wealth
“I’ve never spoken to a PA resident who doesn’t know how many houses they have … let alone be off by 8,” Fetterman quipped on Twitter after a Tuesday report by the Daily Beast that Oz owns 10 properties — far more than the two “legitimate” houses he claimed ...
John is so good: smart, funny, quick, with it, and is using social media like one of Generation Next savants:
The social media mudslinging has been a hallmark of the race since the candidates emerged from the May primary, though Fetterman’s camp has shown far more fluency with pop culture and social media. (After the Twitter row, the Fetterman campaign trolled Oz with a game-show parody of “Family Feud” titled “How Many Houses Do You Own?”)
...several Republican Senate candidates endorsed by former president Donald Trump have struggled, including Oz, retired football star Herschel Walker in Georgia, and venture capitalist and author J.D. Vance in Ohio.
Fetterman has repeatedly mocked Oz for his supposed lack of Pennsylvania bona fides, enlisting New Jersey celebs to troll Oz, who spent decades as a resident of the Garden State before moving in 2020. When Oz attempted to reach voters with more slice-of-life messages, Fetterman’s team highlighted the wealthy doctor’s often-fumbling attempts to style himself as an everyman.
...an Oz campaign video from April resurfaced Monday and went viral for all the wrong reasons: In it, he bungled the name of the Pennsylvania-based supermarket Redner’s while lamenting what inflation under Biden has done to the price of crudité.
