Mehmet Oz, a former surgeon who became a TV personality and is running as a Republican for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat, had video footage of a recent grocery-shopping trip go viral on Twitter
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this week. The video, originally posted in April, shows Oz inside a supermarket selecting items for a crudités platter while complaining about high food prices.
At the beginning of the video, Oz appears to conflate the names of two grocery-store chains — Redner’s and Wegmans — by calling the store in which he’s being filmed “Wegners.” Throughout the video, Oz laments the price of each of the items he purports to be purchasing at his wife’s direction, and ends the video by saying, “Guys, that’s $20 for crudités, and that doesn’t include the tequila. I mean, that’s outrageous. We’ve got Joe Biden to thank for this.” See: Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Here’s our rundown of how it will affect your energy bills, investments and drug costs. Also: Republicans still favored in midterm elections, but their chances for taking back Senate are dropping The grocery-shopping video from Oz has been viewed more than 10 million times on Twitter alone. This style of video is not new for the Pennsylvania candidate. He has posted similar stream-of-consciousness videos on his social-media profiles throughout his campaign — including ones about gas prices and battery manufacturing. Oz is running against Democrat John Fetterman, currently Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor. Fetterman posted a rapid response to Oz’s viral video on Monday.
From there, the Fetterman campaign turned its teasing up several notches, taking aim, for one thing, at Oz’s misnaming of the grocery store, for which the Fetterman team even crafted a logo.
The Philadelphia-area local of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union piled on:
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