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
i mean, conor lamb ran a campaign which was it left a lot of questions from when he got into the race to what he was actually doing in the race. and conor lamb couldn t even tell you why he was running today. he s a great candidate. right? i mean, i think we saw the fact that he won that trump seat, he s a great candidate, can be, but he never really carved his way or his lane. i think he thought he was supposed to be ordained. wasn t he the chosen one? he thought he was. you know, malcolm kenyatta ran a great race. and i said it off air and i ll say it, and i can t wait for my phone to blow up. the republicans are going to try to paint fetterman out to be bernie sanders. that ain t going to work. fetterman s a great candidate for rural white democratic voters, those voters who have left the democratic party. i mean, we have this obsession with those diner voters, you know, we do all of those kind of one-offs where you go to a diner and find those people who voted for barack obam
dream. this was conor lam who was the former marine, the former federal prosecutor, everybody knows that story but it came down to those local issues and i talked to this man anthony ross who i first met on monday in washington county and he had the time he was a trump voter and he was unsure how he was going to vote. i called him up late last night and he told me he cast his vote for conor lamb and he said what fried rick saccone s butt was his unwillingness to concretely say where he stood with labor in this district. this was a man that worked for 42 years at a sheet and tubing steel facility in cannonsburg when it shut down in 2008 and he felt that conor lamb while he still supports donald trump was that candidate to represent pa 18. fascinating. incite the district. also you talked about all that republican money. the president of the united states brought in to close the deal at the last minute and apparently could not get it
republicans this fall. i agree with that 100%. and all of those precedents matt matter, historically speaking. you can derive certain kinds of warning signs from them. this one in particular, though, you were discussing it in the first hour a little bit is i would say particularly alarming for republicans because here is what didn t happen over in this race. what didn t happen was after donald trump and the republicans passed their giant tax cut, the biggest thing that the president has accomplished no impact. what they didn t do is even go and campaign on it. they didn t think that that was how you win this trump district. they didn t go down and say we have a raging economy, we ve got a great stock market, we just passed this tax cut, that s how you win the race. no. they did not make that argument because they knew it wasn t going to work. instead, in this district which you re right, joe, is very red but is not among the most conservative districts in the country, so they d
his pro gun stance as if they were some kind of a far left group to try and tear him down and so this is ominous and i do think that it will reverberate in many other races and here s why. if you drill into the numbers a little bit, what we saw here were twin forces. conor lamb couldn t just pull this out by having anti trump forever alone in allegheny county. he got that but what else did he get? he got those blue collar working class areas to flip over to him, many of these people who voted for trump just a year ago moving over to vote for the democrat. that is a very serious sign in other districts. this district should not have been anywhere competitive. and there s no spinning this, joe. the white house spin last night was the polls early the recent polls said it was 4, 5 or 6 points for conor lamb. the president pulled him closer. well, the reason that gap closed from 16 months ago to plus 20 from trump arguably is because