”Dr Oz” har knappat in i senatsvalet i Pennsylvania

The 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania will be held on November 8, 2022, to select a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It will be held concurrently with elections for all other Class 3 U.S. senators, elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, and a gubernatorial election. Republican surgeon Mehmet Oz and Democratic lieutenant governor John Fetterman will seek the Senate seat. The election is expected to be competitive and important to determine party control of the Senate in 2023 due to incumbent Republican senator Pat Toomey not seeking re-election after two terms. As the election is for an open Republican-held seat in a state won by Democratic president Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, it is seen by many Democrats as the best possible Senate pick-up in 2022.In the May 17 primary, Fetterman won the Democratic nomination with 59% of the vote. Oz finished with a 0.1% difference between him and David McCormick in the Republican primary, triggering an automatic recount. McCormick conceded the nomination on June 3, making Oz the first Muslim candidate to be nominated by either major party for U.S. Senate.