Sources tell Rolling Stone that Donald Trump is upset that Mehmet Oz is running for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
According to two sources who have talked to Trump about the upcoming elections, he is going to lose unless something changes.
According to Rolling Stone, Trump has asked how someone once so popular on TV can't keep his numbers up, as Oz is stumbling in the polls. Oz had no experience in politics before he was elected president but was well-known as a successful businessman and host of the long-running reality TV show.
Rolling Stone reported that Trump asked his advisers if he made a mistake by endorsing Oz.
Trump is sticking to his guns. He will go to Pennsylvania in September to support Oz and the entire Pennsylvania Trump ticket.
Oz moaned in a video about the high cost of "crudité" in a city that preferred Philly cheese steaks. The well-known Pennsylvania grocery store Redner's was referred to as Wegner's by him.
Oz was trolled by his Democratic opponent, John Fetterman, who said that Pennsylvania voters don't know what "crudité" means.
Colbert hailed Fetterman for going "full troll on Oz's Garden State ass".
Oz was mocked for posing as a man of the people at a cheese steak restaurant. Fetterman bashed him for that stunt and got some help from a local company.
Fetterman was out of the race for three months as he recuperated from a stoke. He reached fellow Pennsylvanians and attacked Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey, where the TV personality has resided, and where he voted as recently as 2020.
Fetterman has recruited high-profile New Jerseyites, notably musician- actor Steven Van Zandt and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of the TV franchise "Jersey Shore," in stealth political ads.
There are other Trump Senate race endorsements that are trailing their Democratic opponents.
Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell warned Thursday that Republicans might not take the Senate as predicted in the polls, because GOP candidates are lacking "quality."
The Senate is more likely to flip than the House, McConnell said. Senate races aren't the same as statewide ones. The outcome has a lot to do with the candidate's quality.
McConnell didn't single out any candidate. The Republican Party was upset about controversial Republican Senate candidates with little or no political experience.
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