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he took the lead for the first time tonight around a half hour ago. okay. and the big dynamic here is kathy barnette had been eating into what might have been a clear win for him. david mccormick coming up the middle as the more moderate, traditional republican candidate, ie not election denying. look, this thing is still tight. it s a o1.1 race. bucks county are coming in with a slight edge to oz right now. but this thing is well within recount territory. this isn t going away. what do row think is happening that there is a slight inch for him? i think trump s endorsement is making a difference. oz doing really well in coal country. something to really pay attention to. mccormick s strength is the suburbs in pittsburgh, where he grew up. but right now you see oz just edging ahead. but this isn t going to be over. this is going to be days. this is in recount territory. every ballot counts right now. 851. did you say days? possibly. we thought hours, maybe. ....
ceo dave mccormick are neck and neck. unfortunately we won t have resolution tonight. but we can see the path ahead, we can see victory ahead, and it is because of you. so thank you, pennsylvania. when all the votes are tallied, i m confident that we will win. and i want to thank other individuals who are unbelievably close friends, made a big difference in my life, always there at every moment. let s start with 45, president trump. president trump after he endorsed me continued to lean into this race in pennsylvania. it is a key contest not just for the candidates but also for former president trump. as you heard there from dr. oz, trump pushing to consolidate his control of the republican party with his endorsement of dr. oz only to see some of that influence syphoned away by kathy barnette. she experienced a last minute surge in the polls drawing support from some of those suspicious of oz s ideological shifts. and on the democratic side on the pennsylvania sen ....
and david mccormick. their positions on the leaderboard changing by the minute with thousands of votes still left to be counted. as of this moment this race would certainly trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania doug most reno has won the republican nomination. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he is face josh shapiro the state s attorney general, shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a democratic gubernatorial primary since 1930. john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary in pennsylvania, no drama there, though he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife in just a bit. north carolina congressman madison cawthorn has it s a major rebuke of someone else once seen as a major person in the gop but salacious photos puts him ....
unofficial returns completed within the next few days, and every county will be reporting their unofficial returns by next tuesday, so we will have a sense very soon as far as, you know, how many mail-in ballots are left to be counted. the outcome in pennsylvania sets up a consequential race for november. now, that could ultimately determine who controls the senate. tuesday was the biggest day so far of the 2022 primary season. it was expected to be a referendum on whether former president trump has any staying power, but the results have been a mixed bag. in the pennsylvania governor s race, state senator doug mast ya know won, trump endorsed him at the last minute. in north carolina trump endorsed the incumbent in the 11th second district. there will be no return for madison cawthorn. david chalian is with me now. let s start with the pennsylvania gop senate primary. where are these outstanding votes for republicans? first, just look at this margin here, right? we ....
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. ....