race with doug mastriano and josh shapiro, it was harder to get two candidates who offered different visions for the state that were more different. the governor s race and the secretary of state race because the governor appointed the secretary of state of what is gonna happen in pennsylvania with mastriano is one of those issues, one of those possibilities that made joe biden say democracy is on the ballot. shapiro ran on extremism and abortion, and he tied it all together and one of the most powerful speeches of the midterm saturday night in philadelphia in that big event with president biden and president obama. he ran on abortion and he also was the target of antisemitic attacks on a daily basis. mastriano took money from gap. he was sort of the center of the extremist maga movement running against some very competent, very message, disciplined, very, very good candidate in joshua pirro. by the way josh appear had two things.
26 points in 2020. the difference if he had had the 2016 performance on montgomery and in boxing in chester and in delaware, then basically would ve erased the 80,000 vote margin joe biden won the state by. if you re mehmet oz, he came into the night wanted to get trump s 2016 levels in the philadelphia suburbs. the way it s going, you may have to exceed those. but it remains to be seen, because we re waiting on the same day votes in those counties right now. i think that s gonna be potentially the ball game. when you get a little bit of expert help in these pennsylvania numbers that we re looking to from somebody who s been there done that. david plouffe is one of our political insiders tonight. he s been watching these numbers and results come in beside us. david i, want to get your take by democrat win by josh appear on, in the governor s race, and what now looks to be a very close while fought race for that senate seat? joshua pirro ran a fantastic race. mastriano is a weak can
the state that s gonna be really essential for winning formula. no candidate can win in pennsylvania, unless they went philadelphia and the count counties. you see the candidates out there a lot, joshua pirro the democratic senatorial candidate, was out in philadelphia on saturday as well. so they re really leaving no vote to chance. particularly in the case of fetterman, who is running really really closely with mehmet oz right now. john, perhaps the most important message out of pennsylvania today, wasn t from either candidate, for living governors. from the state of pennsylvania, sent a letter to the main party candidates, vying for the the current governor and the candidates, urging them to accept the results of the elections, urging them to accept and participate, in a peaceful transfer of power. no one should have to say this on the night before him in terms, but here we are. yeah that is pretty extraordinary, that
closing argument to voters this weekend, in philadelphia. that kind of slash and burn politics that we re seeing right now, that doesn t have to be who we are. we can be better. and it has nothing to do, by the way, with political correctness, or being too woke. it s about fundamental values, that my grandparents from kansas taught me. values i grew up with. values you grew up with. values we try to teach our kids. values we learn in churches, and mosques, and synagogues, and temples. honesty, fairness, opportunity, hard work, values that joshua pirro, and john fetterman stand for values that joe biden stands for. values that were in the shrine in our founding documents, a few dot miles from here. i clarion call for freedom, and
tech hub with a headless of black and penal businesses. folks were coming in, saying we saw you at the rally, we are excited. i think the goal was achieved. people were excited. it reminded them that this election was very important. the question is, are they going to vote? if you look at the numbers right now, in wisconsin for the early vote, i think they are. obviously, president obama is closer. he is the single most talented politician. although, joshua pirro did a pretty good obama thing. he did capture it. what is the obama team thinking about how to use it? i did hear some folks saying hey, you have a black woman running in north carolina. president obama picks up one north carolina by 14,000 votes. he barely lost it in 12. that could be viable, how are they deciding where to send him? they really focus on sending him out where people are already voting. they know that if they can inspire people, light a fire, get them excited, they could feel like what they re doing is