kathy barnette s headquarters. 90 miles west of philly. alexandria, what can you tell us? things have slowed down here. kathy barnette and her supporters in a prayer circle. a short time ago, they were engaged in dancing. so it s been a night full of hope, especially here at the barnette camp. unexpected things have happened in this race. namely barnette s rise to her popularity. that happened earlier this month. that came from the supreme court draft opinion leak of roe v. wade as barnette really points herself to be the pro life candidate. so she saw a lot of momentum there. the question is now did that lead to turnout at the polls and that remains to be seen. a lot of hope in this room right now from elizabethtown. laura: thanks. and now to bryan llenas at the headquarters for dr. oz. he came in tonight loading most poms. what can you tell us? they came in with momentum. they believed that they had momentum especially after the president s endorsement in april. the b
headquarters. bryan? yeah, laura. look, when bill was at the billboard, it was a hush silence in the room watching bill give the latest numbers. he mentioned the automatic recount in pennsylvania does kick in the difference is a half a percentage point or less. perhaps looking at that here. people are looking at the situation right now, a couple of things that we re wondering with this campaign. dave mccormick spent a lot of money attacking dr. oz. the big question here is whether or not trump s endorsement came in a little too late for people that already mailed in their ballot. did enough people come out? that s a big question. also, the reality is, we re dealing with a situation here with dr. oz has, you know, this reputation that was attacked byday mccormick has being essentially a liberal, he was even attacked for having duel
their team said that they knew they would have a tight race. they feel good about where they ve been, where they re going. again, in a race this close, you won t find my campaigns at this point of the night saying otherwise. you have dave mccormick, western part of the state. the only top tier candidate running in the republican party for the evening. it s a good indication a lot of the votes coming in from this side of the state. right now feels good. they re hoping that they can hold on. on the one hand, you have dr. oz with president trump and his endorsement on the other hand, kathy barnette and her surge. david mccormick touting the backing of former secretary of state mike pompeo. they went to westpoint together and also that of senator ted cruz. hoping all of this will come together and be enough to put him over the top. a good bit of news here in the last 1 hour, 1 1/2 hours. the democratic side of this race has been called. john fedderman, the lieutenant
a lot of people don t like kathy barnette. a lot of people found her authentic. and david mccormick, the army ranger. comes across as a nice guy. what is your thought right now? the top three candidates all brought something different to the race. what made this race particularly fascinating is the fact that there was a split in maga world. right? president trump endorsed mehmet oz and dave mccormick whose wife served as a deputy national security adviser in the trump administration for a while and a series of advisers split among the candidates. i think it s helpful and i think it s healthy for the republican party, for the america first movement to have this kind of competition between a couple of extraordinary candidates bringing different things to the table. we ve a real nail biter on our hands here. we ll see how it shakes out.
two candidates. we ll stay on this. let s go to rich edson now in pittsburgh at the mccormick headquarters. rich, it was at 3% at one point. 2.9. now .6. what are we looking at, what is outstanding? you re looking at, laura, a little more excitement here. we re getting closer and closer and closer to that 100% mark. he continues to hold on to the lead. it s getting smaller. they re at the point right now where they re beginning to feel good. still cautiously so about where this is heading. westmoreland county, suburban pittsburgh where president trump had his rally for dr. oz and then some of the counties out east. suburban, philadelphia. go up knot to the lehigh valley laura: we re going to a hard break. we ll come back and wrap this. stay there.