For whatever reason, Mr. Fetterman has calculated that voters’ concerns about inflation, the surging crime wave, and the consequences of record illegal border crossings — including the smuggling of Chinese fentanyl across the border and into the commonwealth’s suburbs, cities and small rural communities — aren’t actually top-tier concerns.
This decision to skip over major issues isn’t the result of Fetterman’s stroke, nor was it a lapse in judgment: It’s just who he is. If he were the working-class economic populist he’s often billed as, he would be focusing on those issues, and the pain they’re inflicting. …
Mr. Oz, who comes across as polished when conducting cable news interviews — a hazard of his profession he jokes about — often showed another side to voters on the road: curious, compassionate and able to absorb the complexities of the situations in front of him.
Despite winning Donald Trump’s endorsement in the primary, Mr. Oz never adopted Trump’s populist style, as others like J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona have done. As one voter said in Erie, “He’s more Tom Ridge in temperament if you ask me, and I like that.”
Mr. Oz said he wants to finish his campaign by talking bout how he would solve the most pressing issues of our time — inflation, crime and the border — and how he will keep himself from getting “swamp fever” inside the Beltway.
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