Democrats are trying to turn the GOP’s 2024 Senate contenders into Dr. Oz

Democrats had a field day beating Mehmet Oz two years ago, relentlessly branding the TV doctor-turned-Senate candidate in Pennsylvania as a crudité-loving carpetbagger from New Jersey.

Now, in another election cycle that could tip the balance of power in the chamber, Democrats are attempting toreplicate — and expand — that strategy in several of the year's most competitive races.

Once again in Pennsylvania, Democrats have aggressively seized Republican front-runner Dave McCormick’s travels back-and-forth from his mansion in Connecticut. In Michigan, Democrats have pushed an unflattering narrative about former Rep. Mike Rogers, who returned home to run for Senate after relocatingto Florida. And in Montana, they have nicknamed two GOP hopefuls as “Transplant Tim” and “Maryland Matt” — even though both have lived in the state for years.

“Senate Republicans’ roster of candidates is full of carpetbaggers with tenuous ties to the states they’re running in,” said Tommy Garcia, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “These out-of-state GOP Senate candidates are badly out of touch with the voters that they want to represent and it will lead their campaigns to defeat in 2024.”

McCormick faced similar residency questions in 2022, when he lost to Oz in Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary. But he has a clearer path to the nomination this year, and Democrats working to re-elect Sen. Bob Casey have accused McCormick of lying about where he lives because of a mansion he rents along the Long Island Sound in Westport, Connecticut.

A Gulf War veteran and former hedge fund manager, McCormick keeps a home in Pittsburgh and owns a long-held family farm in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He has children from a previous