chris eight and is now 9 pm on the east coast. with course are continuing our election the cupboard with eye on several key prior races across country. we have results and kentucky, already, where republican senator rand paul projected winner of his party s primary. november, he will face off against democratic charles booker. who is not a projected winner in the democratic primary race. polls have also closed and north carolina, where the current congressman ted but is the projected winner of the senate republican primary. he defeated the former north carolina governor pat mccrory. all eyes are on the 11th congressional district in that state, madison cawthorn has come under sustained attack from his own party in the wake of multiple scandals. in the last hour, polls also close and pennsylvania, one of the most important swing states this year with some big marquee races. democratic lieutenant governor, john fetterman, is now the projected winner in the democratic senate pri
sanders and michelle goldberg and, all right steve kornacki has new numbers on that madison cawthorn primary, which is a real nail-biter right now. that s up next. eal nail-biter right now. that s up next
tonight. if he wins tonight and becomes governor, he can have a lot of power with the pennsylvania selections, including of course the next presidential election in 2024. he s already said he s will use that power in ways that will likely benefit trump. the fate of american democracy may be on the ballots in pennsylvania tonight. msnbc national political correspondent, steve krewasky is at the big board. he joins us now with the numbers. chris literally in the last ten seconds. we saw a switch here. statewide leaderboard in the republican primary in pennsylvania, doug mastriano now has taken the lead statewide here. big mix wayne. running in. second barletta running in third. let me explain what s going on because pennsylvania s going to be the most complicated want to watch tonight. but i think some revealing things just happened to explain this. we ve been talking about how, there s this big disparity between republicans and they re reluctant reluctant to use mail-in votes. and dem
so we ve got doug much gianna leading as you can clearly see, this is the statewide tally right here. in the primary, and all signs are extremely favorable for mast ronny, his color here. across the board here. we ve been talking about this, the difference between male votes, and saying they votes. folks who have voted by mail, once in person by voted to the polls today. republicans we say much less likely to vote by mail, that s one factor, the other factor is the trump endorsed candidates we ve seen race after race so far this year, have done much better on the same day vote, the election day vote. this i think is the most dramatic illustration of it i ve seen in any primary we ve seen yet in the season. how dramatic? let me put a couple numbers on the screen. so, far in the mail in ballots that have been counted in this ballot. doug last reno is running at 9%. okay? in the same day votes that have been counted. he is running at 51%. so you look at this map, he is