Obama, Trump, and Biden Make Final Midterm Push in Pennsylvania
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On the final weekend before the 2022 midterm elections, the current president and two former ones converged on Pennsylvania, where a toss-up senate race between Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz (R) could be the determining vote in senate control for the next two years. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama held a rally for Fetterman. Not far away, former president Donald Trump spoke at a rally for Oz.
Key Quotes: At the Democratic rally, Biden alluded to Oz’s background, stating, “I lived in Pennsylvania longer than Oz has lived in Pennsylvania, and I moved away when I was 10 years old.” Obama praised legislative work done by Biden in the past two years, calling for voters to secure a stronger Democratic Party majority in the senate, stating “you've seen what he's accomplished with the barest of margins. If you vote, he can do even more, but it depends on you”
At the Republican rally, Trump labeled the 2022 midterms “the most important midterm election in American history.” He teased his announcement of a 2024 run, which is expected to come shortly after the midterms, criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, also expected to run for the 2024 Republican nomination, and reiterated unproven allegations that the 2020 presidential election results were fraudulent. Trump promised attendees that Oz would “stand up to the radical left Democrats and the dangerous and unpatriotic RINOs”
For Context: A FiveThirtyEight (Center Bias) poll has Fetterman up by 0.4%.
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