commonwealth. the senate gop primary. hedge fund guy dave mccormick and trump-endorsed tv doc dr. mehmet oz locked in a tighter than tight battle. look at that. just 2,600 votes apart. the trumpiest candidate really not endorsed by him kathy barnette trailing despite what looked like a late surge and people were concerned she might actually win, or could win. cnn projects doug mastriano, a champion of the bogus big lie of election fraud, in 2020 has won the gop governor s primary there. and talk about high drama. as cnn projects john fetterman wins pennsylvania s democratic senate primary. he is exactly where he didn t expect to be right now, though, watching from his hospital bed. he s recovering from surgery to get a pacemaker today after he suffered a stroke on friday. and then there is north carolina. that s where madison cawthorn has conceded to chuck edwards. the 26-year-old cawthorn conceding after multiple scandals, everything from bringing a loaded handgun through a
he took the lead for the first time tonight around a half hour ago. okay. and the big dynamic here is kathy barnette had been eating into what might have been a clear win for him. david mccormick coming up the middle as the more moderate, traditional republican candidate, ie not election denying. look, this thing is still tight. it s a o1.1 race. bucks county are coming in with a slight edge to oz right now. but this thing is well within recount territory. this isn t going away. what do row think is happening that there is a slight inch for him? i think trump s endorsement is making a difference. oz doing really well in coal country. something to really pay attention to. mccormick s strength is the suburbs in pittsburgh, where he grew up. but right now you see oz just edging ahead. but this isn t going to be over. this is going to be days. this is in recount territory. every ballot counts right now. 851. did you say days? possibly. we thought hours, maybe. hou
but without a doubt we re going to probably have a recount in a lot of these count these votes because it s going to be so close and we re going to find out that barnette has come from the sleeper candidate of this race to the spoiler candidate for oz because she has been just zapping votes from him. the unique thing about this, though, and what many people and my good friends on the republican party don t want to acknowledge, is that there s nothing real about dave mccormick. a hedge fund guy who all of a sudden becomes a tea party guy who all of a sudden becomes a maga guy who yesterday was on breitbart radio. that is not who dave mccormick is. so he s going to waffle and wharf so what are you saying? i m saying it s going to be very difficult for someone who is not true to themselves toog to be able to go throughout the different portions of pennsylvania. i will admit charlie knows this have i v way better than i do. and win this race. you have to have somebody who is at l
suburbs was where republicans were born in the south cast only about 1/5 of the vote in the republican primaries. again, back to the envelope calculation. and what that means is all of these candidates are competing more for nonurban, increasingly noncollege, culturally conservative voters. and that has a magnetic pole on the entire republican field. where you see even someone like mccormick where in the past might have been the establishment republican candidate saying on breitbart radio yesterday he is going to go be a warrior for the donald trump agenda in washington, even after trump had criticized him. the real story here is how the whole center of gravity in the republican party continues to be pulled in a trumpian direction, whether or not his personal choices are winning. i want to go to harry enten. harry, i would have a question for you but you are, as my mom would say, sitting there looking wise and otherwise. i m looking at two great looking gentlemen at 1:05 in the eas
he wrapped himself around trump. he went on breitbart radio yesterday and said donald trump did what no republican had done before, he crafted an agenda to deal with the problems of forgotten americans and i will go to washington and implement that agenda. and his behavior really underscores the point, we talked about this earlier this week, don. to me the issue tonight is not so much who donald trump endorsed and what happened to them. it s who endorsed donald trump. i mean, all of the major candidates are positioning themselves in this race as officials who will keep the republican party moving in the trump direction. and i think that is the overwhelming story of the night. there are gradations, obviously, and who he personally endorses matters to some extent. but the real message as in ohio is that there simply is not a big constituency anymore in the republican electorate for an