Oz
Dr. Oz declared victory, while a recount occurs
Edition # 62
5/29/2022
Dr. Mehmet Oz declared himself the victor in the Pennsylvania Republican Primary race, even as the state readies for a recount since the voting was extremely close. This does not matter. What is more concerning is that Oz is claiming that he has won the race; it signals that he has little regard for process, even when it includes Republican primary voters. In short, is there any vote that the Republican Party is not looking to usurp?
An automatic recount was triggered; Dave McCormick argues that every ballot should be counted that was returned via the mail, even if the voter failed to put the date on the envelope.
The judicial system has argued that this should not prevent a ballot from counting. McCormick relies on the mail ballots, which the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, wants to eliminate, and the Republican Party has decided it should not exist. In part, the Republican Party will continue the charade of having a consistent policy agenda. One day it wants to eliminate mail-in voting the next, it wants all mail-in ballots counted so long as it somehow helps one of its candidates.
The statewide Republican Party sided with Dr. Oz in a more telling picture, which shows the glaring fact that Donald Trump remains a significant force in the Republican establishment. Republicans had an opportunity to dismiss Donald Trump after the terrorist attack on our nation, and they chose to embrace him and his election lies.
Those in the media who claim that Trump is losing support within the Republican Party are hopelessly wrong. Oz declaring victory proves that the election denying wing of the Republican Party is alive and well. This wing that rejects elections and wants to stop counting so long as it helps them is only growing within the Republican party.
That should concern every American regardless of political leaning, but that would be naive thinking since only one party in America today is concerned with ensuring free and fair elections.