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Dave & Oz’s Thelma & Louise Moment

After spending tens of millions, dragging in Hope Hicks, and kissing babies up and down the Keystone state, the two megarich MAGA poseurs may have beat each other into submission—and handed the race to someone else.

Tina Nguyen
May 11, 2022

For the past several weeks, the two leading candidates in Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. Senate primary, David McCormick and Mehmet Oz, had been locked in something like a statistical dead heat. McCormick, the Gulf War-fighting ex-hedge fund C.E.O., has been trailing just slightly behind Oz, after the celebrity heart surgeon picked up an endorsement from Donald Trump. The race has since taken a particularly ugly turn, with Trump and Oz hitting McCormick for his hedge fund’s ties to China, and McCormick allies smearing Oz, a Muslim dual U.S.-Turkish citizen, for serving in that country’s military and voting in a 2018 election there.