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
in the democratic party is simply this. the democratic party, you saw malcolm kenyatta tonight, who ran an amazing race even though he got 10% of the vote. malcolm kenyatta is a very, very young candidate. he s an awe-inspiring candidate. gay black man who ran extremely strong in philadelphia. what s happening is the democratic party has already consolidated around fetterman. we re going to go out there and do whatever we can around fetterman. this race is going to boil down to whether or not black folk can come out and vote in philadelphia and the surrounding areas. and i believe they will. the difference, though, is fetterman can do something that other candidates in pennsylvania have not been able to do, which is that fetterman can speak to rural white voters. he simply can. and i think dave mccormick s going to have a problem because a hedge fund guy who all of a sudden is a common man? that s a hard sell. regardless of what people are saying. it isn t that hang on. go ahead.
what happened to conor lamb? this is one of the fascinating they thought he was the wunderkind. a centrist candidate tailor made to win a general election in a swing state. fetterman big personality, lieutenant governor, just took all the momentum. not a lot of enthusiasm behind conor lamb tonight. fetterman winning this from a hospital bed. right. and kenyatta did well, what, in philadelphia or philadelphia. that s what you ve got to look at. it s still, though, fetterman territory. but he got 53,000 votes there. really the story tonight, the thing to watch, the thing the country and possibly control of the senate holding on to, is the senate. let s go back to this. there s 1,0 other 1,020 now. you see that getting titler. mehmet oz when he s addressing folks at his campaign headquarters saying we can still pull this off, this isn t going to be decided until tomorrow, he s right. 1,000 votes right now. .1%. is that a runoff? .5% or less is a sorry, is