Oz Offers Takes on 2020 Election and Trump, Chastises Fetterman for Not Debating

Celebrity surgeon and Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz said at a press conference in Philadelphia on Sept. 6 that he would have voted to certify the 2020 presidential election results but would have not voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.

“By the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our job was to approve it, which is what I would have done,” Oz said.

Oz, who is endorsed by Trump, said he would not have supported the former president’s impeachment because he was “already leaving office by then.”

Standing alongside retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, whose seat Oz and Democratic nominee John Fetterman are vying for, Oz also chastised Fetterman for not agreeing to debate.

Mehmet Oz, who is running for the US Senate, speaks as former U.S. President Donald Trump stands behind him during a campaign rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Sept. 3, 2022. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

During the press conference, Oz also clarified part of his stance on abortion. He said he would not support criminal penalties for women who have abortions or doctors offering the care. Oz added that he is “strongly pro-life” but believes in exceptions with rape or incest cases, or if the mother’s life is at risk.

The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year to overturn Roe v. Wade has emerged as a key issue in the 2022 midterm elections.

Oz defended Roe v. Wade as recently as 2019, yet he says he is “100 percent pro-life” on his campaign website. In May, before the Republican primary, Oz said at a town hall event that he believes   “life starts at conception” and “if life starts at conception, why do you care what age the heart starts beating at? It’s, you know,

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