Mehmet Oz and his campaign against Democratic contender John Fetterman for
a Senate seat in Pennsylvania continues to fail just a disaster.
And the latest round of failure has to do with the fact that the Oz
campaign thought it was a great idea to attack Fetterman over the fact that
he had a stroke recently.
So a spokesperson with the Oz campaign, Alex Griffin said this,
if John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life.
Then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke and
wouldn't be in a position of having to lie about it constantly.
Trip said taking a jab at Fetterman who suffered a stroke days ahead of winning
the Democratic primary in May.
And so I'm sorry Alex Griffin is the media reporter.
Trip is the individual who is speaking out against Fetterman in
a pretty disgusting way.
And so what got Trip so upset, Why is Dr. Oz campaign so upset?
It's CUZ Fetterman really knows how to dunk and he knows how to do it online and
he certainly did it in response to Oz's now notorious crudity video.
And so Fetterman had written on twitter in Pennsylvania,
we call this a veggie tray, right?
Because Dr. Oz referred to it as a credit,
which is not language that most people are familiar with, right?
It's very fancy language for a veggie tray.
So nonetheless, Oz did not get a lot of positive feedback
when that statement about Fetterman stroke came out.
Fetterman says I had a stroke, I survived it.
I'm truly so grateful to still be here today.
I know politics can be nasty, but
even then I could never imagine ridiculing someone over their health challenges.
And apparently, Jake Tapper was even disgusted by these statements and
said something about it in a recent segment of his show.
Let's take a look at that.
>> The communications director for Dr.
Oz said if john Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life,
this is the reference to the crew today, reference scandal.
Then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke and
wouldn't be in a position of having to lie about it constantly.
I'm from Pennsylvania and I think this is another man's race really, honestly.
But like that's kind of nasty.
>> Yeah, I mean, I've been covering politics for about a decade now and
that's a new level of nastiness that we don't usually see in Senate races.
I think when trump came on the landscape though, these politics really changed and
these people get in the gutter and just it can get really ugly.
>> I mean, it is an odd man's race, right John.
But what Oz said it was nasty, was nasty.
I like the admission from Tapper that Oz said something or
his campaign said something nasty, but the needless dig at Fetterman [LAUGH].
Yeah, I think he said it was either man's race,
but what he did, he's going to say it's nasty.
He has to admit it's nasty, but
that would be critiquing one of the candidates which is like suspicious.
It's dangerously near taking aside even the most,
it's the most obvious thing you have to take a side on this.
It's terrible to say what he said so
that he has to throw I mean it could be anybody like I don't know, I don't care.
I'm not a thinking human person.
I'm obsessed with politics.
My entire career is politics but I can't choose between the two.
It's all the same really.
What a weird position to hold.
He >> No
>> Prefers one of the two.
>> But I get it,
I mean Brian Stelter just got fired from CNN and
it's because their new owner wants to push CNN to a right wing position.
So I kind of get Tappers panicky statement there.
But I'm glad you clarified because I heard odd but I think you're right anyway.
I'm not sure.
But anyway, yeah.
No it's reprehensible.
It could potentially help amongst some conservatives.
Well why?
Because it's such an awful thing.
Yeah cuz it's awful.
They Fetterman is a democrat.
Thus he is for many of those republicans literally a baby eater.
Like that's what millions of conservatives think at the very least he's
a rabid kami and so there are no lines whatsoever.
There's no going too far, there's no like, well I went to church growing up so
there's supposed to be lines, we don't no.
They want absolute vicious attacks and so maybe that will help him amongst some, but
at large, how many millions of people in Pennsylvania do we think have had strokes?
Many of them.
I was just looking at stats and they said if you're over 25 right now,
your chance of having a stroke in your life is at least one in four.
They said every 40 seconds someone in the US has a stroke and
every 3.5 minutes somebody dies from a stroke.
>> Jesus >> It is a leading cause of death amongst
Americans.
Now it's not, as with everything else in America,
it's not distributed equally across our population.
Black Americans are far more likely to have and
die from strokes than white Americans.
And so he's offending all sorts of different people that he would like to
vote for him.
There are many conservatives who will see that, they have had strokes,
at the very least they know people who've had strokes.
Who have suffered mobility issues following strokes,
cognitive issues following strokes, financial burdens, bankruptcy,
medical bankruptcy, following strokes.
And that's what he thinks he's gonna earn points on, he's such a terrible candidate.
>> He's awful and yeah,
I mean that is the best point in regard to why there's backlash, right?
I mean, consider what you're saying to an unintended audience,
you're unintentionally,
I assume insulting people that you're trying to persuade to vote for you.
And you're blaming them for the condition as well, right?
Like, so with Fetterman accusing him of having, like a super unhealthy lifestyle,
there are all sorts of hereditary issues that could lead to a stroke.
So yeah, so insulting people like that is pretty disgusting.
And so I'm not really surprised by the backlash.
I will say, I think it's pretty clear that Fetterman is gonna win,
considering how well he's doing in the polls, he has a massive lead over Oz.
So why do we cover this story so often?
Cuz it's like one of the few places I find solace in the new cycle.
It's just so fun to see an excellent Democratic candidate stomp
on a terrible Republican candidate and
means that we have at least something positive to look forward to electorally.
So there you have it.
>> Yeah and look, I feel the same way in that it's good to have a race that seemed
like it might go the other way where the democrat is actually leading, that's nice.
To have a candidate who we, seemingly would agree with on a lot of issues
actually be the candidate that's amazing.
To have a candidate who was chosen for largely the same reasons that Donald Trump
was massive grifter that should send up warning signs and
red flags to literally any other thinking human.
But the republicans have been trained not to be able to see any of that and
in fact prefer someone who's going to con them.
Someone who is in no way qualified for political office.
The only reason they know who they are is because they were on tv I guess.
And we're so we expect now that those candidates are gonna do very well because
why would we have any higher expectations for the American people and yet
he's not doing well.
So that feels kind of nice after the last few years too.
There's a lot to like in this race.
I'll agree with you on that.
>> Totally, all right, let's do one final story.
Not a positive one but it involves electoral politics over in Florida.
Let's do it.