ballots are not able to be scanned electronically because of printing problems. we will get to my monologue in just a moment but first joining us live, he is the man, he used to be the hannity big board, now it is the hemmer big board, 8% of vote in the senate race in pennsylvania and everything else going on tonight? a big spin around and take you to pennsylvania, sean, what we are seeing right now, live voting, some of this is going to change as we go to the board, that i will take you to north carolina and show you what is happening there. the biggest primary night we have had of the year and we have been watching this now going back to the 1st of march in the state of texas. this is where we begin now, sean, the republican senate primary, with 9% of the vote in, donald trump, remember he endorsed dr. mehmet oz, about 25% of that 9% share of the vote. david mccormick, however, off to a pretty good run at about 32%, as you see the vote come in. kathy barnette trailing
plus, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell leads a delegation of senate republicans on an unannounced visit to ukraine even as one of his own members slows progress on military aid that washington has been trying to fast-track. we ll tell you where that legislation stands now. and a key component of russia s propaganda machine at risk, as bloggers imbedded with russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and are now voicing concerns. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for being with us. we begin with the latest on the deadly shooting in buffalo over the weekend. the white house says the president and first lady will visit the city tomorrow, to quote grieve with the community. speaking at the national peace officer s memorial service in washington yesterday, president biden addressed with the justice department investigating as an act of racially-motivated, domestic extremism. a lone gunman,
that people within trump s orbit had told him to run for secretary of state and encouraged him to kind of reach out to others and form this alliance. so he started what was known as the america first slate of secretaries of state. and that included a few candidates for governor who would name the top election official, like say dog mastriano in pennsylvania. and they, you know, they were supposedly coordinating some fundraising. we haven t seen any reports but a lot of money went through there, and they certainly did a lot of events together, they traveled around the country and they were presenting this almost continuation of 2020 election falsehoods and denials about the results and tried to spin that forward into taking over the election apparatus in key battleground states in 2022. why do you think voters rejected these candidates? you know, we saw a lot of voters reject election denialism kind of en masse when it was at the forefront of the campaign.
predecessors will all be in pennsylvania today to campaign with candidates ahead of this year s midterm races. the main races that voters are focusing on early state race for governor. it is between joshua pirro and dog mastriano. it is also the senate race between fetterman and mehmet oz. we are multiple poll showing that the senate contest is in a dead heat after last week s debate between fetterman and oz. msnbc has more on this race. with control of congress at stake, it is the race of the finish line. here in pennsylvania u.s. senate race, it is lieutenant governor john fetterman versus tv dr. mehmet oz. we will see dueling headliners. president biden and former president obama are campaigning for fetterman in philly. former president trump will rally for oz near pittsburgh. mr. obama has been front and center for democrats in recent weeks. mr. biden, not so much. given rising inflation in his low approval numbers.
us in a position where we have fewer rights over the next 50 years then we did in the previous 50. i think we saw that there was really a hole that we could fill in terms of being 100% focused on beating those bigots everywhere. you know why it? our friends at the victory fund are doing incredible work, but sometimes the folks who are most who represent a great threat to lgbtq+ folks, they are not running against candidates. he s a perfect example of somebody who is an incredible threat to not just the future of pennsylvania, but the country because of where pennsylvania sits novelist system. you brought him up but dog mastriano is the candidate for governor in pennsylvania. i want everybody to have a listen to what he said during his republican primary victory speech. like the media and left