Oz digs deep for support as crossover votes loom large
PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz can't just rely on Republican votes in November, and he acted like a candidate who knows it as he made his latest pitch Thursday to voters in a heavily Democratic city less than four weeks before Election Day. Oz, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, is locked in an airtight battle with Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) that has grown more contentious by the week. To win, Oz needs to fire up Republicans by landing blows against his Democratic opponent, while also courting moderates in both parties and independents who polls show are backing state
Read MoreTrump skirts testimony question in hostile 14-page Jan. 6 response
Former President Trump on Friday skirted the question of whether he would testify under subpoena in a 14-page response to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, instead doubling down on his disproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump posted a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee's chairman, one day after the panel voted unanimously to subpoena him for testimony about his role in the events of Jan. 6, when supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol to halt the certification of the 2020 election results.
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Read MoreThe Hill's Morning Report — Jan. 6 Committee makes closing argument against Trump
The House panel investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, used new and previously known evidence on Thursday to allege that former President Trump pursued a plan to try to overturn the 2020 election knowing he lost his bid for reelection and then encouraged a mob to attack the Capitol in an unlawful bid to cling to power (The Hill). “The vast weight of evidence presented so far has shown us that the central cause of Jan
Read MoreFive things to watch as Warnock, Walker debate in Georgia
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and his Republican rival, Herschel Walker, are set to meet for the first — and only — time on the debate stage Friday in Savannah with fewer than four weeks to go before Election Day. The race in Georgia has emerged as one of the most, if not the most, competitive Senate contests of the 2022 midterms as Republicans l
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