
'Nervous about Oz's prospects': Trump and his allies worry about a Barnette victory in Pennsylvania
CNN
In the hours after Fox released a poll this week showing Pennsylvania Republican US Senate candidate Kathy Barnette locked in a statistical tie with primary opponents Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick, allies of former President Donald Trump went to work trying to stifle her momentum.
To sow doubt about her conservative bona fides, they circulated one of Barnette's tweets from July 2020 featuring the hashtags #BLM and #DefundThePolice -- two rallying cries deployed by racial justice activists that Republicans seized on during the last election cycle.
But a video accompanying the tweet told a much different story. "Abolishing the police is stupid," Barnette declared through tears into the camera. "Do not fall for these White liberals who are coming into our communities and telling us we need to remove law enforcement."