ICYMI: Oz had Trump’s endorsement, but didn’t win in Trump country

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NBC News: Oz had Trump’s endorsement, but didn’t win in Trump country
By Dante Chinni
June 10, 2022

Key Points:

• A closer look at the results shows that Oz actually did not fare well in places where Trump scored big victories in 2020.

• Trump won by massive margins in four of these types of locations: The largely rural types of Graying America, Rural Middle America, and Working Class Country, as well as the blue-collar suburban Middle Suburbs. … But Oz lost in the first three of those types and only narrowly eked out a win in the Middle Suburbs.

• In the case of Pennsylvania, Trump was heavily invested. He pushed hard for Oz and even visited the state and held a rally for the senate candidate in mid-May. That’s the kind of effort one would expect to pay off on primary day. By these measures, it did not.

• The numbers raise questions about the November general election and how many Trump voters are Oz voters.

• The new nominee may find it hard to generate the big turnout that Trump had from the rural parts of the state, which tend to lean Republican. Those voters were critical to flipping the state to Trump in 2016 and to Trump nearly repeating that feat in 2020.

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