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
former hedge fund ceo dave mccormick. their positions have been flip-flopping all night long. thousands of votes still left to be counted. as things stand this race will almost definitely trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania trump backed candidate doug mastriano with a clear lead, cnn projects he has won the republican nomination. he is pennsylvania s leading far right figure. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he will face democrat josh shapiro the state s attorney general. shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a gubernatorial primary since 1930. also in pennsylvania john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary, he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery this morning after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker just hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife on his condition in just a bit. meanwhile, north carol
john fetterman. he s the state lieutenant governor. he scast his ballot from his hospital room before under going surgery to implant a pacemaker. fetterman suffered a stroke last week. scandal plagued congress madison cawthorne suffers defeat despite a last minute lifeline from the tomformer president. i ve got it pulled up. tchs the biggest race going into the nigh and it s the biggest race we don t have called coming out of the night. this is a .2% difference. this important thing the know with oz ahead, i always say, you d rather ahead than behind. david mccormick has to get 2500 plus votes and oz gets zero. it can happen statewide. a lot of ballots still counted. you have ballots being counted when the margin is this small. they will be running against john fetterman. i m a little surprised that this. connor lamb was a rising star. 26% running as a moderate. i think people underestimate fetterman, the lieutenant governor. i don t think they should do that. he won over
cliffhanger in pennsylvania. the trump endorsed tv doctor, mehmet oz, is neck and neck with david mccormick. we ll break down the former president s election night wins and losses as he s now pressuring dr. oz to declare victory before the last votes are counted. and another chilling twist in the buffalo shooting massacre. we re now learning that the suspected gunman revealed his racist attack plans online some 30 minutes before the deadly rampage. and that s prompting a new state investigation. there s a lot to discuss when the mayor of buffalo joins us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, ukrainian forces are within miles of their enemy s backyard, after making significant new gains in the kharkiv region near the russian border. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the front line. every inch of respite from russian shelling here comes at grotesque cost. what
the general election. plus, republicans in north carolina s 11th congressional district run out of patience with madison cawthorn as trump s pick in that race is voted out. we ll break down those results. and speaking in the wake of the buffalo tragedy, president biden vowed to, quote, expose those who use power and prestige to spread hate. but the question this morning, will he name names? good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. we ve got a lot of news to get to today. here we go. results are still coming in this morning for pennsylvania s closely-watched primary election. in the hotly-contested senate race, republicans still do not have a winner. the election is too close to call between trump-backed dr. mehmet oz and hedge fund executive david mccormick. mccormick is backed by several trump administration officials, including former secretary of state mike pompeo. recent polling saw him losing momentum after trump