night, republican senate primary in kentucky, mitch mcconnell got close to 60% of the votes to defeat matt bevin. allison lundegan grimes, takes on mitch mcconnell. in the pick yuchl in the cup. alison grimes wanted to make it about kentucky. mcconnell wanted to make it about hollywood. my opponent is in the race because barack obama and harry reid want her to be in the race. there is a reason, my friends, a reason, every hollywood liberal is sending her a check. there isn t a dime s worth of difference, not a dime s worth of difference between a candidate who puts harry reid in charge and harry reid himself. let me set the record straight tonight for our senior senator out of touch with kentucky, president obama is not on kentucky s 2014 election ballot. nothing abut th aing about thisl change who is in the white house, but we can change who is in washington, d.c. see about that one. the georgia primary, no candidate on the republican side came near to 50% in that seve
yesterday for primary races in six states. some of the most closely watched primary races in the country happen tonight. at this hour, we are still getting fresh results. for example, from all over the country. but we did get one big result, moments after the polls closed tonight. in the kentucky primary for senate, mitch mcconnell, he beat his tea party challenger so soundly they called the race less than ten minutes after the final votes were cast in kentucky. mitch mcconnell will move on the the general against a well resourced democratic challenger. more on that coming up in this hour. in pennsylvania, tom wolf won for governor. he had to defeat allison schwartz. tom is a pennsylvania businessman. he worked in the administration of a popular democratic governor named ed rendell. governor rendell will be with us in a few minutes to talk about tom wolf s chances against republican governor tom corbett in pennsylvania. also in pennsylvania veteran republican congressman bill
allison lundegan grimes, takes on mitch mcconnell. in the pickup. alison grimes wanted to make it about kentucky. mcconnell wanted to make it about hollywood. my opponent is in the race because barack obama and harry reid want her to be in the race. there is a reason, my friends, a reason, every hollywood liberal is sending her a check. there isn t a dime s worth of difference, not a dime s worth of difference between a candidate who puts harry reid in charge and harry reid himself. let me set the record straight tonight for our senior senator out of touch with kentucky, president obama is not on kentucky s 2014 election ballot. nothing about this election will change who is in the white house, but we can change who is in washington, d.c. see about that one. the georgia primary, no candidate on the republican side came near to 50% in that seven candidate primary field. which include three sitting u.s. congressmen. right now looks like, kingston will face david perdue in
country. but we did get one big result, moments after the polls closed tonight. in the kentucky primary for senate, mitch mcconnell, he beat his tea party challenger so soundly they called the race less than ten minutes after the final votes were cast in kentucky. mitch mcconnell will move on the the general against a well resourced democratic challenger. more on that coming up in this hour. in pennsylvania, tom wolf won for governor. he had to defeat allison schwartz. tom is a pennsylvania businessman. he worked in the administration of a popular democratic governor named ed rendell. governor rendell will be with us in a few minutes to talk about tom wolf s chances against republican governor tom corbett in pennsylvania. also in pennsylvania veteran republican congressman bill schuster has survived his primary fight against the tea party challenger. he is head of the transportation committee in the house and for lack of a transportation bill, passing his committee yet this y
investigated across the country, including that phoenix hospital where as many as 40 veterans allegedly died while waiting for care. will anyone be held accountable? if somebody s mismanaged or engaged in misconduct, not only do i not want them getting bonuses, i want them punished. and good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington where we have breaking news. president obama standing by his controversial secretary of veterans affairs, at least for now. they had a meeting today on how to fix the va health care system. across the board, he has put his heart and soul into this. but i said to ric, and i said to him today, i want to see, you know, what the results of these reports are, and there is going to be accountability. accountability. well, joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent chuck todd, and jim, and kerm colonel jack jacobs, and legislative director for iraq and afghanistan, veterans for america. let me take this out of turn, alex, and go to you first