That woman, Kathy Barnette, has risen in the state’s GOP US Senate primary polling and she IS scaring the shit out of Donald Trump and others…
Why?
Because ….
If she is the party’s candidate?
She would be a weak canidate for Republicans come November with things she has siid she believes…
Republicanas will need every win they can get to pull a US Senate majority for next year….
Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to “… rejecting Hitler’s or Stalin’s worldviews.” In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person “deformed” and “demonic.”
Barnette surged in recent polls in the upcoming Pennsylvania Republican US Senate primary, putting her in a dead heat between Donald Trump-endorsed former TV star Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund manager David McCormick. The Pennsylvania Senate seat is one of the one of the best pickup opportunities for Democrats this November, and Barnette’s sudden, rapid rise is causing worry among Trump allies.
Barnette has had a quick and unpredicted rise in the polls ahead of next Tuesday’s primary…..
| Tuesday, May 10 |
| Race/Topic (Click to Sort) | Poll | Results | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Senate – Republican Primary | FOX News | Oz 22, Barnette 19, McCormick 20, Sands 8, Bartos 7, Gale 2, Bochetto 1 | Oz +2 |
| Pennsylvania Senate – Republican Primary | FOX 29/InsiderAdvantage | Oz 23, Barnette 21, McCormick 19, Sands 5, Bartos 5, Gale 1, Bochetto 1 | Oz +2 |
image…NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA – MAY 11: Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette gestures onstage as she joins other Republican candidates at a leadership forum at Newtown Athletic Club on May 11, 2022 in Newtown, Pennsylvania… Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty
Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary race polling……
Oz Leads as Barnette Surges in Pennsylvania
A new Emerson College poll in Pennsylvania finds Mehmet Oz leading the GOP Senate race with 28%, followed by Kathy Barnette at 24%, and David McCormick at 21%.
In the GOP gubernatorial race, Doug Mastriano has surged to first place with 34%, while Lou Barletta trails with 22%.
More on Republican Senate worries….
To a degree surpassing any other contest in the 2022 midterms so far, Donald Trump has poured his personal prestige into Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary race, which is going through a final spasm of uncertainty as Kathy Barnette, an insurgent candidate with a sparse résumé, gives a last-minute scare to Trump’s pick, Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The outcome of that election, as well as the G.O.P. contest for governor, is threatening to implode the state’s Republican Party — with a blast radius that might be felt in states as far away as Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina over the coming weeks and months.
The turbulence also has major implications for Trump’s hold on the party, which is growing more alarmed that the former president’s involvement in primaries could scupper Republicans’ chances of reclaiming the Senate despite President Biden’s unpopularity.
Trump endorsed Oz, a celebrity physician, over the advice of many Republicans inside and outside Pennsylvania. The bill is coming due, those Republicans now say….
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