Oz's late-campaign push for bipartisanship draws howls of hypocrisy from Democrats
Mehmet Oz has focused his final campaign message on bipartisanship in the tight Pennsylvania Senate race. But Democrats say they aren't buying it.
PITTSBURGH — Republican Mehmet Oz is taking his campaign message of bipartisanship to a new level, saying he wants to know how exactly to reach across the aisle if he wins Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat.
“What are you able to predict for us about bipartisanship in Washington? How does it even work?” he asked Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., at a roundtable event Sunday.
“I suspect that all of your colleagues on the Democratic side are in agreement that we want enough law and order that people feel secure and we want a border that’s secure,” he said at one point to Collins.
The event alongside two of the most moderate Republicans on Capitol Hill — Collins says Oz “will listen to both sides” — was a microcosm of how Oz has been running his campaign in the final weeks of the pivotal midterm race that could determine control of the Senate. At campaign events and in nonstop TV advertising, Oz is portraying himself as a moderate who would push back against extremism and bring “balance” to Congress.
“We’ve got to unite,” Oz said at a rally Friday in Wexford, a suburb north of Pittsburgh. “Let us cut through the partisan bickering and deal with the problems that you, me and everyone else wants to address.”
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