Speaker 1: The Pennsylvania Senate race is one of the most interesting elections this midterm cycle,
as it presents Democrats with an opportunity to pick up a seat in the upper chamber and add to
their majority. Democratic nominee John Fetterman is up against Republican Mehmet Oz, and this race
was considered a toss up just a couple of months ago. But it's now looking like Fetterman really
is pulling away. The FiveThirtyEight average of polling has Fetterman up by 11 points 49%
to 38%. And part of this can be expected because Pennsylvania, still, after all, is a blue state.
Yes, they did vote for Trump in 2016. They've put people in power like Rick Santorum and Pat Toomey.
But this is still blue territory, we can say. But another part of the reason is that Mehmet Oz, Dr.
Oz, he really just seems to be a lot weaker of a candidate than many of us even expected. He's been
painted successfully as a carpetbagger because he's from New Jersey. He's been painted as an
elitist, which is also true because he has a net worth of about $100 million with ten houses. More
on that later. On today's bonus show, we actually talked earlier in the week on the bonus show about
his crew to take video, which was filmed back in April. But it's going viral now. And John
Fetterman was mocking him for it because he didn't know the name of the grocery store that he was in.
He didn't know how buying vegetables works. And oftentimes the price that's listed is the price
per pound versus the price per vegetable. So the Fetterman campaign was having a field day
trolling him for that. Well, the OSI team is realizing that they have to make up some ground
and they've decided to go on the offense. They did so by releasing an attack ad on John Fetterman,
and I don't think it's going to work out too well for them. Let's take a look at the ad.
Speaker 3: Now that John Fetterman claims to be recovering. Let's pull back his hoodie and examine
what's in his head. Looks like he has some screws. What's this? That one wants to release one third
of all prisoners. That's crazy. To spend more tax dollars, everything will cost more. That's nuts.
Slow energy production. Gas prices will skyrocket. That's ridiculous. Socialized
medicine. Get these crazy ideas, and now it makes a mess. Well, Bob, let her close it up.
John Fetterman is crazier than you think. Speaker 1: All right, so in the ad,
they attack John Fetterman for wearing a hoodie, which actually can be argued is an asset for him.
The fact that he just dresses like the average Pennsylvania dude, he's not trying to be anything
that he's not. He's not wearing a suit and tie just for the show. He likes wearing his
basketball shorts and his sweatshirts. So I don't know if that's going to be all that
effective for the odd campaign. Then there's this bong that pops out of veteran's head,
and I couldn't find out whether Fetterman himself uses cannabis, but he is one of the most pro weed
politicians in America. He supported it long before it was politically popular to do so.
And the latest poll that I could find was that 58% of Pennsylvanians support legalizing marijuana. So
I don't see how that is much of an attack either. Then there's this bit about releasing a third of
prisoners while we do have the world's highest prison population. And if you're talking about
releasing people who are nonviolent, people who are maybe drug offenders, that sort of thing,
yeah, they should be let out of prison. That's totally cool. By the way, I thought Republicans
were all of a sudden more amenable to this idea of prison and criminal justice reform, because they
think that the January 6th rioters are spending too much time behind bars. Maybe they forgot about
that over at the Oz campaign. Then there's the thing about slowing energy production. Clearly,
that's over the course of many years and decades, though, to move in the direction of renewable
power that will ultimately save people money, by the way, and save the planet in the long term.
And then they put up the phrase free health care being held up on a sign by AOC, which they should
have known that they shouldn't have used the term free health care, universal health care.
It would have been much better if they used the term government takeover of health care,
they said in the ad, socialized medicine, but they should have put that on the sign as well, because
that's the type of phrase that polls a lot better for Republicans. And then out pops Bernie Sanders,
who is apparently the one who's really controlling John Fetterman. If you vote for John Fetterman,
you're actually getting Bernie Sanders. I think this is another blunder, too, because, yeah,
Bernie wasn't popular enough to win the Democratic primary, for example, either in 2016 or 2020. But
he is quite popular as a politician. People think that he's principled and he's especially popular
in the Northeast, in states like Vermont, where he represents. And, you know, Pennsylvania is pretty
close by, too, so I'd imagine he's pretty popular there. So even though I'm no Republican, I think
that I could have done a much better job at making this attack ad on John Fetterman, because this
just looks absolutely cartoonish. It's a terrible presentation, very over-the-top. And I think the
team could have done a lot better. Let's hope that Fetterman is able to grow or at least maintain his
lead will be able to land Donald Trump another loss if Fetterman picks up the victory here. But
you know what Trump will do? If Mehmet Oz ends up losing, he'll just distance himself from
Oz and say, Well, Austin, it really run all that close to me. And that's why he lost. But
nonetheless, it will be a glorious victory if we're able to pick up this seat in Pennsylvania.