John Fetterman Beats Dr. Oz in in an Incredibly Tight Pennsylvania Senate Race
John Fetterman delivers remarks at a voting rally in Philadelphia on November 5th (Andrew McKeough/AKSM Photography).
Depending on how those results work out, Fetterman’s win could’ve stalled the “Red Wave” and kept Democrats in control in the Senate.
Article by Zac Tipton, Senior White House Producer
PITTSBURGH - At 1:30 AM on Wednesday morning, one of the most important races in this Senate cycle was officially called.
John Fetterman was able to shock Dr. Mehmet Oz in what was the most expensive race in Pennsylvania history. As he stood on the stage at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, PA. Fetterman, who stood almost speechless at the podium, accepted his victory.
“This race is for the future of every county across Pennsylvania,” Fetterman said in his victory speech, “That’s why, tonight, I will be the next US Senator from Pennsylvania.”
Fetterman secured 50.8% of the vote to win the state when it seemed like he was losing. Dr. Oz only got 46.7%.
Fetterman was projected to win during the entire campaign process, but he did not have a great debate, with a lot of voters starting to agree with Dr. Oz that he was unfit for office. Due to this debate, Oz took his first lead in the polls and many projected that he would win easily. However, there were a lot of votes already sent in before the debate, so Oz was never able to get the flip he needed.
In fact, he never even held a lead at all Tuesday night. Fetterman got off to a giant lead early, and never let go of it, despite Oz closing it. Fetterman got key votes in the rural counties, counties that Donald Trump dominated in 2020, which matched his campaign slogan, “Every County, Every Vote.” Oz also couldn’t secure enough votes in the Philadelphia area and suburbs. Oz was down from Trump in almost every county, including Allegheny, Delaware, Bucks, and Philadelphia.
“I never expected that we were going to turn these red counties blue,” Fetterman said, “But we did what we needed to do, and we had that conversation across every one of those counties.”
Oz did call Fetterman to concede the election, and he released a statement about his loss:
“We are facing big problems as a country, and we need everyone to put down their partisan swords and focus on getting the job done.” Oz states, “With bold leadership that brings people together, we can create real change.”
With this race in the books as a democrat flip, The race now comes down to three states: Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia.
Georgia has just announced that a runoff is happening, so we will not know the result between Rev. Ralph Warnock and football star Herschel Walker until December 6th.
Nevada is still too close to call, but republican Adam Laxalt is leading that race with 83% of the votes counted over democrat Catherine Cortez Masto
In Arizona, Incumbent Mark Kelly holds a big lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters by 5 points with 76% in, however, that race is still too close as well, because most of the remaining votes are day of election votes, which tend to favor Masters.
Depending on how those results work out, Fetterman’s win could’ve stalled the “Red Wave” and kept Democrats in control in the Senate.