Mehmet Oz has come up with an explanation for his viral crudité video from April in which he mispronounced the name of a Pennsylvania grocery store.
The video was seized upon by Dr Oz’s Democrat rival, former governor John Fetterman, whose campaign said it had raised $500,000 since Monday after the Democrat mocked the video in a viral tweet.
“When you’re campaigning 18 hours a day… Listen, I’ve gotten my kids’ names wrong as well,” Dr Oz told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“I don’t think that’s a measure of one’s ability to run the commonwealth,” he added.
Dr Oz was accused of being out of touch with voters after Mr Fetterman retweeted the viral video in which his opponent was seen picking out vegetables to make a crudité platter.
In the advertisement shot in a Pennsylvania grocery store, Dr Oz mispronounced the name of the store and called it “Wegner’s” — signs in the background …