The party chose not to pick sides in any of the statewide contests this year.
YORK, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Republican Party declined Saturday to endorse a candidate in the state’s highly competitive and increasingly ugly Senate primary.
The members of the GOP state committee, which closed its meeting in Lancaster on Saturday to the press, voted down a motion to endorse candidates in any statewide race by voice vote, according to several sources in the room.
Ahead of the vote, most state Republicans predicted there would be no endorsement. Still, the non-endorsement was a disappointment for real estate developer Jeff Bartos, whose campaign did not project a victory before the meeting but had received the most votes in straw polls of committee members in regional caucuses in the weeks leading up to Saturday.
Bartos, who has struggled in the polls and been outspent by celebrity physician Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick, needs to shake up the race to overcome his rivals’ financial and name ID advantages. Oz and McCormick have also spent more on television ads so far than a pro-Bartos super PAC.
……..
Oz, in particular, benefits from the lack of an endorsement after performing poorly in prior straw polls of party activists.
……..
At a meeting last week, the state’s Democratic Party also did not endorse a candidate for Senate.
- Discussion
-
The Pennsylvania Republican Party declined to endorse a candidate in the state’s highly competitive and increasingly ugly Senate primary https://t.co/DNE1IPPCXL
— POLITICO (@politico) February 5, 2022
The GOP was waiting for “instructions” from their lord and master, Trump. He didn’t endorse anyone. So they didn’t either. It’s a bad slate of candidates — two guys who don’t live in PA, one of whom is a tv “doctor” (quack), and a real estate developer most people never heard of. Strange for me to say, but I’m hopeful this seat falls to the Democrats.
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.