MAGA WORLD HAS DOUBTS ABOUT OZ — While MEHMET OZ is pitching himself as a pro-Trump candidate in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, a number of influential supporters of the former president have started to attack the doctor as a MAGA pretender, Daniel Lippman reports. Referring to Oz, STEVE BANNON recently said that Fox News was “non-stop pimping out the single biggest anti-MAGA candidate — the pick of the Australian MURDOCH and McConnell.” JACK POSOBIEC, senior editor of Human Events and an alt-right conspiracy theorist, has called Oz “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” MAGA pundits have also questioned Oz’s views on abortion and gun control, among other issues.

“He’s a squish, at best, with no track record of conservatism and with no discernible conservative views whatsoever. In the off chance he gets elected, he would make MITT ROMNEY seem like LAUREN BOEBERT,” conservative columnist KURT SCHLICHTER wrote in Townhall last week.

An Oz campaign official responded: “Dr. Oz is the only candidate with America First bona fides,” adding that the candidate “has the support of many from within the MAGA movement” as well as two Trump veterans who are working on the campaign or advising him.