try to convince the people i pennsylvania voters who haven come as far as you have, o this issue lawrence, i think at that time in 2012, in the aftermath of the horror, the absolut horror of sandy hook, one of the questions i had aske myself when my wife and my fou daughters asked me, what are you going to do about this are you going to say tha there s nothing you can do about this at all you are in united states senator. you are a member of legislative body, are you goin to say that nothing you can do about it think that is what we have t challenge republicans about, you are saying that the most powerful country in the worl must surrender to this terribl complex problem that no othe country in the world has i just don t think that that i against the american spirit to surrender to a problem we know what we can do, we kno we can take a series of common sense measures and put them in place, like comprehensiv
senator, you wrote an op-ed piece about the ar-15 and ho it s a different weapon from what hunters in pennsylvania need and why it should not b on the market. and one of the things that s important about tracking you thinking on this is that you thinking changed over time and ten years ago, with what happened that sandy hook, yo watched that happen and yo decided you had to change your view on what hunters i pennsylvania needed and how to support them and so you have moved on thi issue into kind of a positio where most of the democrats in the senate are on this is there something in the wa that you adjusted on this issu that enables you to try to convince other people in pennsylvania voters who haven come as far as you have, o this issue lawrence, i think at that time in 2012, in the aftermath of the horror, the absolut horror of sandy hook, one of
dr. oz, he s in a dead heat against lieutenant governor john fetterman. it was trump s endorsement that led to dr. oz winning the republican primary by less than a thousand votes. dr. oz will share stage with trump and republican candidate doug mastriano. according to polls he is seen as too extreme by half of pennsylvania voters and is losing by double digits in this race. sharing a stage with trump could alienate moderate and independent voters dr. oz has been trying to court by denouncing extremism on both sides. you ve got to unite. i m a heart surgeon, not a politician. to deal with the biggest problems we face which in my case is a broken heart, i ve got to bring everyone together. can t have us divided. we need the biggest sense of balance to washington. washington is getting wrong with radical ideas.
pennsylvania. joining me to talk about this is former republican congresswoman from virginia, barbara comstock and cnn spokesperson, karen finney. karen, i spent lots of time in georgia as well. we ll talk about that. let s talk about the senate race between fetterman and oz. a recent marist poll puts fetterman slightly ahead of oz, 5 1 % to 45 %, but the polls have been close throughout all of this. look at the data for the same poll. the top issue for pennsylvania voters is inflation. karen, let me start with you. we got a better than expected jobs report yesterday, but do you think inflation has just been on the minds of voters for so long, gas prices and so on, that this is just a very steep hill to climb for democrats? well, a couple of things. i think, you know, when we talk about inflation, one of the things that is on voters minds is who has a plan to deal with inflation. who is going to focus on trying