Oprah Winfrey endorses Fetterman over Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race - CNN

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The pistillate who helped crook Mehmet Oz into a household sanction is backing the Republican’s hostile successful Pennsylvania’s key Senate race.

Television icon Oprah Winfrey announced connected Thursday nighttime that she prefers Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman implicit Oz successful the midterm election contest.

“If I lived successful Pennsylvania, I would’ve already formed my ballot for John Fetterman, for galore reasons,” WInfrey said during a speech she hosted connected voting.

Oz roseate to nationalist fame arsenic a regular impermanent connected “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and aboriginal erstwhile Winfrey backed his ain rotation off, “The Dr. Oz Show.”

Winfrey told New York Magazine successful 2021 that it was “up to the residents of Pennsylvania to determine who volition correspond them.”

Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, cheered the endorsement connected Thursday night.

“It is an grant and privilege to person Oprah’s enactment successful this race,” said Fetterman successful a statement. “She is simply a person connected truthful galore issues — warring for our democracy, passing common-sense weapon reform, and ensuring radical justice. I’m grateful for Oprah’s enactment and spot connected the issues that substance to radical crossed the state and Pennsylvania arsenic we adjacent retired this campaign.”

Winfrey during the speech besides voiced enactment for different Democratic candidates successful cardinal races, including North Carolina’s Cheri Beasley, Florida’s Val Demings, Wisconsin’s Mandela Barnes, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, Texas’ Beto O’Rourke, and Georgia’s Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams.