By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com
Published: 05:06 BST, 30 June 2019 | Updated: 05:06 BST, 30 June 2019
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Elizabeth McCarthy, 50, withdrew from the race for House District 28 on Friday
A Democrat running for Florida's state House has withdrawn from the race after her claim that she treated Pulse nightclub victims was questioned.
Elizabeth McCarthy, 50, withdrew from the race for House District 28 on Friday, two weeks after her claims and credentials were called into question by local watchdog news site Florida Politics.
'I personally removed 77 bullets from 32 people … It was like an assembly line,' McCarthy had claimed at a gun control panel earlier this year, saying she was working as a cardiologist at Orlando Regional Medical Center on the night of the 2016 Pulse massacre, where 49 were killed and another 53 wounded.
The only problem: the hospital said it had no record of her employment there, and the
