Fox News Airs Poll Shows Fetterman up by 6 points, Anchor Immediately Scolds Colleague for Citing It
Channel: Papa Daddy Unscripted
Date: 2022-10-25

Literally minutes after Fox News highlighted a recent CNN poll showing GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz trailing six points on Tuesday, anchor Harris Faulkner chastised Fox News commentator Leslie Marshall for daring cite it during an on-air discussion.

At the top of Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News midday chatfest Outnumbered, co-host (and former Trump press secretary) Kayleigh McEnany noted that the “Pennsylvania Senate matchup is in the spotlight” as Oz and Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman are set to face off in their only scheduled debate.

“It is a race that could determine which party controls the senate. Polls show only single digits separating John Fetterman and Dr. Oz,” McEnany stated as the control room aired a large graphic of CNN’s latest survey showing Fetterman polling at 51 percent and Oz at 45 percent.

Later in the roundtable discussion, Marshall was asked to give her take on the state of the pivotal race, and the longtime Democratic strategist quickly pointed to the latest poll to note that Fetterman is now leading outside the margin of error.

Additionally, she said, the CNN poll results—which show a wider lead for Fetterman than other recent surveys—may spell trouble for Oz’s favorability.

“His approval rating is not good,” Marshall said. “This is a problem for him. It’s not just being an outsider, as many view him in the state of Pennsylvania. It’s the personal attacks as a doctor on Fetterman’s health.”

The liberal Fox News pundit further claimed that the top political issues and Tuesday night’s debate won’t “matter as much” as voters’ personal views of the two candidates, adding that “people are pretty much set on who they will vote for” at this point.

Faulkner, though, immediately pushed back on Marshall’s citation of the CNN poll her show had just cited on-air—even going so far as to claim that she was unable to find any survey that showed a six-point lead for Fetterman.