Friday 13 May 2022 03:56 PM Trump fretting another loss? 'Knives are coming out' for PA Senate candidate ... trends now

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette said the 'knives are coming out' against her as she's shot up in the polls after former President Trump called her past into question. 

As underdog Barnette has shot up in popularity to just behind Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz and ahead of hedge fund executive David McCormick by some polls, members of the media began to ask 'Who is Kathy Barnette?' as a Washington Examiner piece published Thursday was entitled. 

Trump, not one for losing, launched an attack on Barnette.  

'Kathy Barnette will never be able to win the General Election against the Radical Left Democrats,' Trump said in a Thursday afternoon statement. 

'She has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted, but if she is able to do so, she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party—and I will be behind her all the way.' 

All but one of Trump's endorsements have won their primary so far-- Nebraska GOP Gov. candidate Charles Herbster lost after he faced groping allegations from eight women. 

During Trump's rally in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on Friday he bragged about his winning streak in midterms.

'Every single candidate that I endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday,' Trump said last Friday, referring to the Ohio and Indiana primary elections. 'We have a total record of 55 and 0.' 

But Barnette brushed off the attack during a campaign stop in Bucks County, and said she actually took Trump's statement as a compliment. 

'We know that President Trump did not mince words,' she told reporters Thursday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. 'I think that letter was favorable. And I look forward to working with the president.' 

The far-right Barnette would typically be a dream candidate for Donald Trump - she fought hard against the 2020 election results (in which she also lost to Rep. Madeline Dean in a heavily blue Philadelphia district). The conservative commentator says she organized a bus to Washington, D.C. for the 'Save America' rally which preceded the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. 

But as news outlets began to poke around her past, Barnette steeled herself against any inquiries for proof that she is who she says she is.  

That changed after Trump's statement. Barnette did a 25-minute tell-all interview with conservative radio host Chris Stegall where she claimed she'd been an 'open book' but the media had not done its due diligence.  

'I've been running this race for 13 months and all of a sudden everybody's like "who is she?"'

'I've been knocking on the doors of main stream media saying l"ook at me, talk to me." No one wanted to talk about me. They only wanted to talk about the two rich guys who were beating up on each other,' Barnette griped. 

While her opponents have gone to war with each other, Barnette has used her compelling personal story to connect with voters on the ground - she often tells of how she grew up on a pig farm in Alabama, before becoming a veteran, then working at two financial firms and as an adjunct professor of corporate finance, and authoring the book, 'Nothing to

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