watching the pennsylvania senate republican primary because the lead keeps going back and forth and the margin keeps changing. you can see mehmet oz ahead by 2,564 votes but that lead just shrunk a little. why? let me show you, forest county, pennsylvania, this is not a lot of votes in this county, but we did just get some new votes reported there. let me show you how things have changed. kathy barnette who was in third overall received 143 new votes there, dave mccormick 147 votes and mehmet oz 133. so you look at this difference there and you say, hey, that s just 14 votes, but the last three batches of votes that have reported mccormick has closed the edge, closed the gap a little bit in this state. overall let me show you some of the areas that still have to report votes. you can see this is the places
language. i thought it was interesting that they both intersected to say i can be your guy maga if i get this across the finish line. don t can count me out in the fall and consider voting for me if i make it out of this primary. can we talk about fetterman, the democratic nominee for senate who got 60% of the race. fetterman seems as part of the progressive wing of the democratic party but on the other hand he is sort of crosses a lot of different border lines there. what do you think? what are we to make of him? i looked at last night as a snapshot of the year but i also wanted to go retrospective and look at pennsylvania and kind of how conor lamb came on the scene. lamb was a backlash of trump winning in the special election in 2017, similar to how joe biden is like a backlash to trump in pushing through 2020, but democrats are frustrated. democratic voters want we see a stalled agenda and they went
with a moderate democratic candidate because they thought washington was going to be able to deliver and we re seeing that it s not happening. so that provides an opportunity for a fetterman to come out and say, hey, i m here, i m a fighter, i can drink a beer with you, i m your guy. one thing that he has to do, though, is he can t just go to white working class voters in pennsylvania, he s got to get into philadelphia, tap into communities of color and make sure that he doesn t isolate himself moving into the general, i think. one of the interesting things about fetterman, in 2016 if you talked to people about the bernie sanders campaign and how bernie sanders was really attractive to working class, blue collar workers, fetterman looks and acts like one of those workers who would show up at a bernie event and so he s sort of in some ways there s some differences but he s sort of a 2.0 of bernie sanders. if you were going to rebrand the bernie sanders kind of appeal to a more worki
by about 10 points, if there are 30,000 votes left and he s winning the votes by about 10 points that s more than enough to close the margin. i think we will have to wait and see how many of those votes still could be counted are votes by mail because across the board mccormick is doing better in counties, he s competitive and perhaps leading in the mail vote. there may be a difference between the mail-in ballots sent early versus late. that s what we re watching closely. harry, let s talk about the trump factor overall in last night s primaries. basically, you know, we look at the where trump endorsed, wie call it a mixed evening. endorsement wins, ted budd in north carolina win, mastriano in pennsylvania, granted that endorsement was really, really late, he jumped on board when he felt mastriano was going to win. idaho governor his candidate lost. north carolina 11 madison cawthorn lost. so this was a mixed evening for trump coming on the heels of