A key Senate race in the nationĪnalysts say the seat is one most likely to flip in the 2022 midterms, when Democrats will try to hold onto or expand their narrow majority in the Senate. Pat Toomey, a Republican from the Lehigh Valley who believes in self-imposed term limits and is not running for re-election. Oz is running for the seat currently held by U.S. On FOX Tuesday night, he said he "came home" to Pennsylvania a year ago, the state where he went to college, married his wife and had children. The campaign announcement Tuesday said Oz lives in Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, with his wife, Lisa, of 36 years. His longtime home is above the Hudson River in Cliffside Park, N.J., overlooking Manhattan, where he films his TV show and practices medicine. It's unclear why he isn’t running for office in New Jersey, where he has lived for the past two decades before he began voting in Pennsylvania’s elections this year by absentee ballot, registered to his in-laws’ address in suburban Philadelphia. He will be a candidate in the 2022 Pennsylvania Republican primary. Oz, who became a household name as a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show, has donated to Democrats and Republicans alike. The campaign announcement from Oz follows previous news reports that he was eyeing a run. Safety and helping kids thrive would be among his top priorities, he said.
He said he would do the same for Pennsylvanians and the American people as a U.S. "America is in crisis," he said on FOX. "Our values are under attack."Īs a doctor, he said he tells patients the truth and offers solutions. He elaborated on his reasons for running during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s FOX News show at 9 p.m. Oz focused on the pandemic in the first ad released by his campaign. "Pennsylvania needs a conservative who will put America first, one who can reignite our divine spark, bravely fight for freedom, and tell it like it is," he said. "They took away our freedom without making us safer and tried to kill our spirit and our dignity." "We lost too many lives, too many jobs, and too many opportunities because Washington got it wrong," Oz said in a statement. He credited the pandemic as his inspiration to run, saying Covid "has shown us that our system is broken.
Senate in Pennsylvania "to help cure our country’s ills," according to a campaign statement late Tuesday. Mehmet Oz, a daytime TV show host and cardiothoracic surgeon, is running for U.S.
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