NOt so sure it would have been easy. Fetterman, if healthy, has a lot of name recognition and sadly that is what most people vote on. No R has that name recognition other than Oz. Philly area plus Allegheny Co reign supreme.
I think Dr. Oz has much more name recognition than Fetterman does.
The problem Oz has is he doesn't live in or even spend much time in Pennsylvania. I doubt he really even cares much about the people in PA. He just wants to fly in and get rewarded with a Senate seat.
Fetterman does appear to care about the people of PA. What a concept for a politician! He was the mayor of Braddock from 2006 to 2019 and recently server as Lt. governor.
When he served as Lt. governor he held a town hall in every county in PA, all 67 of them. Do you think Dr. Oz is going do that?
For John Fetterman, the U.S. Senate campaign is like a second listening tour.
When he was first elected as lieutenant governor, Fetterman set out on a 67-county assignment to find out how Pennsylvanians felt about legalizing recreational marijuana.
Now, as he vies for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, he's again touring all of Pennsylvania's counties. And he's doing something most Democrats rarely do — especially in a primary: he's campaigning in red counties.
"It's a moral strategy," Fetterman said by phone during an interview with the USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania Capital Bureau. "We need to engage everyone."