Wellness celebrity figure Dr. Mehmet Oz has been declared the official winner of the Republican U.S. Senate primary for Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a statewide county-by-county recount, narrowly defeating former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
Oz, a retired heart surgeon best known as the host of daytime TV’s “The Dr. Oz Show,” was found to have won the race by a margin of 951 votes, out of over 1.3 million votes cast in the state’s primary election on May 17.
Former President Donald Trump had endorsed Oz about five weeks before the primary.
McCormick on June 3 conceded the race, after Oz declared himself the “presumptive Republican nominee” on May 27 just as the statewide recount was starting….