mcswain and businessman dave white. but we do have a projection to make in the democratic governor s race. and cnn projects pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro will be the democratic nominee for pennsylvania governor. shapiro coasts through uncontested. he will face the winner of the republican gubernatorial primary in the fall. dana bash, shapiro is counting on having a republican candidate, republican competitor whom he can easily paint as extreme. absolutely. he s already starting to do that. we should note that josh shapiro announced that he s positive for covid so i m not sure that we ll actually see him tonight. but jake is exactly right. he became a national figure during the time between november, the november election and when the inauguration happened because as the attorney general in pennsylvania, he was very aggressive about pushing back against gop efforts to overturn the election there. depending on who he has as his opponent, he might be fighting that
ow. hi. booking.com booking.yeah we ve got a key race alert in north carolina. there you see state senator chuck edwards right now in the lead with 37.8%. scandal-plagued madison cawthorn behind with 27.6 as the votes continue to come and be counted. we should point out that senator thom tillis endorsed state senator chuck edwards instead of madison cawthorn in this race. let s go to diane gallagher at cawthorn headquarters. diane? reporter: yeah, look, state senator chuck edwards not only benefited from u.s. senator thom tillis but also more than six figures from that super pac that is tied to tillis with attack ads against cawthorn. we re seeing some of the fruits of that labor at this point.