Biden to host fundraiser with John Fetterman in Philadelphia as Senate race with Dr. Oz tightens

President Joe Biden volition big a fundraiser with Pennsylvania Senate campaigner John Fetterman successful Philadelphia adjacent week, a elder medication authoritative told CNBC connected Tuesday.

Biden's quality with the Democratic Senate hopeful, acceptable for Oct. 20, comes arsenic Fetterman's Republican rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz, gains immoderate crushed successful the polls little than a period from the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

But Oz, a personage doc backed by erstwhile President Donald Trump, is inactive trailing Fetterman, according to polls of the pivotal Senate race. Fetterman hopes to support some his polling borderline and his monolithic fundraising vantage implicit Oz successful the last weeks of the election.

The candidates are vying for the spot being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey. The predetermination successful the plaything state, wherever Biden narrowly bushed Trump successful 2020, could determine which enactment controls the Senate.

Democrats anticipation to cling to their razor-thin bulk successful the chamber, wherever the parties are divided 50-50 and Vice President Kamala Harris gets a tie-breaking vote. Republicans, competing successful midterm elections that thin to favour the enactment not successful the White House, question to triumph power of some the House and the Senate.

Biden and Fetterman volition look astatine a reception successful enactment of the Fetterman Victory Fund, a associated fundraising committee betwixt Fetterman and the state's Democratic Party, according to an invitation archetypal reported by a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter.

Fetterman's run has outraised his opponent's. Outside groups person besides spent much successful attacks connected Oz than they person against the Democratic lieutenant governor.

Oz announced past week that $7 cardinal of the $17 cardinal helium raised past 4th came from his ain pocket. Fetterman, meanwhile, touted that helium self-funded nary of the $22 cardinal that his run raised successful the aforesaid period.

Oz's campaign, successful a connection connected quality of the fundraiser, aimed to blasted some Biden and Fetterman for precocious state prices and crime.

"The Biden-Fetterman docket has fixed america higher prices astatine the pump and more-dangerous streets," said the connection from Oz run spokeswoman Brittany Yanick.

A spokesperson for Fetterman's run did not instantly respond to CNBC's petition for remark connected the event.