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 on the
Your time. Thank you, joy. You can catch me tomorrow. In the meantime, keep it right here on msnbc. Joy, thanks very much. Were going to continue our coverage right here on msnbc through the next hour keeping everybody up to speed on the violence that happened in charlottesville today and we continue with the breaking News Coverage and there have been three deaths that happened today all caused by the White Nationalist in charlottesville, virginia. The governor, Terry Mccaauliffe said that a 32yearold female was killed by Police Killed excuse me. By the driver of that car. Police are calling this a criminal homicide investigation. A male driver plowed into this group of counterprotesters. They were targeted. Nine others were injured. The hospital says five in Critical Condition and four in serious condition. Police tell nbc news that the driver of the vehicle that caused the womans death then fled the scene but is now in custody. As you see with this video, the car without braking mowe
new in morning, we re learning that the suspect in the racist attack in buffalo told an online chat room his plan 30 minutes before the shooting. one of his motivations according to his own words was this baseless quote so-called replacement theory, the same one that has inspired several other deadly incidents in recent years, including at the unite the right rally in charlottesville in 2017 where white nationalists chanted voouz will not replace us. joining us is the executive director of integrity first for america who successfully sued the organizers of the unite the right rally win ago $25 million judgment. we should note. amy, thank you for joining us this morning. i just want to first get your reaction to this breaking news that this suspect had been talking about his plan 30 minutes beforehand in an online chat room. thanks so much for having me.
look, the fact that the buffalo shooter was out there planning his violence online, promoting it online, is not a surprise because that s exactly how these extremists have operated. in fact, the very same site that the buffalo shooter used to log his plans and invite the public to view them is discord, which is the same site that the charlottesville organizers used to plan their violence for months in advance down to every last detail. so what we re seeing nearly five years after unite the right is that what happened in charlottesville was not an accident or isolated incident but a preview of the extremism that followed down to the fools and tactics that they used. amy, look at this and say this shooter acted alone but you say it s wrong to look at this as an isolated matter. why? there is a cycle of violence in which each attack is used to inspire the next. we call the shooters lone wolves
planned to do and yet he still was able to carry it out. he was still able to be successful in his goals of gunning down ten people, targeting them because of their race. there s so much that we can be doing and the fact that we re still having this conversation years after charlottesville, years after el paso and pittsburgh and after yet another white supremacist attack is a sign that we have not done nearly enough. we first of all need a clear unequivocal acknowledgment that what we are talking about is a broader far right extremist effort to undercut our democracy and make our communities less safe. none of us are safe. this was an attack that targeted black people, the shooter also talked about his anti-semitism. so many forms of hate are bound up in this white supremacy and no community is safe until we take this on clearly. we can t keep using the same failed solutions over the last few decades that clearly got us to this moment. instead we need to be thinking about how we buil