What They’re Saying: Oz & McCormick Ballot Fights “Split The GOP,” “Driving A Wedge Between Republicans Ahead Of The General Election”

News coverage is highlighting how “Oz and McCormick are still aiming […] at each other” in “a bitter fight,” which has “split the GOP” and is “driving a wedge between Republicans ahead of the general election.”

See for yourself:

Philadelphia Inquirer: Court battles over ballots in the McCormick-Oz Pennsylvania Senate race have split the GOP
By Jeremy Roebuck, Jonathan Lai, and Julia Terruso
May 24, 2022

• The national and state Republican parties vowed Tuesday to oppose GOP Senate candidate David McCormick in his lawsuit seeking to have potentially hundreds of contested mail ballots counted in his neck-and-neck primary race against Mehmet Oz.

• But with a state-mandated recount looming, an undeterred McCormick pushed the state’s highest court to take up his case — even if that meant standing at odds with his party.

• The questions McCormick is raising in court extend beyond his race with Oz and threaten to divide a party that has made strict control over mail voting central to its identity.

POLITICO: Mail ballots spark bitter dispute in Pa. GOP Senate race
By Holly Otterbein and Zach Montellaro
May 24, 2022

• Republicans had hoped they would be united behind a nominee in Pennsylvania’s Senate GOP race by now.

• Instead, a bitter fight over mail ballots in the still-too-close-to-call contest is driving a wedge between Republicans ahead of the general election in this critical battleground state.

• The dispute also raises the prospect that Republicans could enter the general election with some party voters feeling that their Senate candidate lost by a technicality. A battle over mail-in ballots is especially fraught for the GOP — awkward, even — in the wake of Trump’s war on the voting method.

• Oz and McCormick are still aiming it at each other.

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