is unelectable. unelectable. and i suspect -- i used to serve in the state senate. i don't think that mastriano could beat shapiro in the senate republican caucus in harrisburg. >> okay. i think everyone learned after 2016 don't count anyone out, right? and i hear people saying that all the time, why are you saying that, because look, he ran away with it. >> the collar counties of philadelphia and the lehigh valley. 35% of the vote is probably going to come out of those five counties in philadelphia plus the four collar counties, you extend it up to the lehigh valley. that's a lot of of votes. and it's a more moderate area of the state, and i think this stolen election business is going to turn off a lot of swing voting republicans and independents and he's really going to have to make a lot of votes up in other parts of the state. shapiro hasn't had to run hard left. he didn't have a primary. and josh is a pretty popular attorney general. let's face it. so i think that he's well positioned. now, mastriano will make a race of it? perhaps because it could be a very good republican year. i just don't flow how he gets over the top. >> so listen, mark, trump
endorsed doug mastriano. he's been a fierce proponent of the big lie, for election fraud in 2020. i just want to remind everyone that the pennsylvania governor appoints the secretary of state, who oversees elections. i mean, this new match-up just became even more important. >> i hate to say that what happened on january 6th and the months leading up to it is the new normal but it is the new normal. earlier this evening jake tapper said my gosh, i don't think we've ever seen anything like this. and i can tell you i don't think we've seen anything like this in politics, what we've seen over the past few years. look, mastriano is going to play to a certain element of the maga base. but to charlie's point, especially in a state like pennsylvania, he's not going to have that opportunity, at least on paper right now there's not a chance that he's going to have the opportunity to do it. but you do have to ask yourself, though, what were the republican voters thinking when they decided to make him their
31.2% to 31.2%. mehmet oz is 714 votes ahead right now. here with me charlie dent, bakari sellers, alice stewart along with cnn's senior political analyst mr. mark preston. so charlie, let's talk about pennsylvania has this important -- we're going to get back to the senate race. they've got this important governor's race as well as democrat and attorney general josh shapiro is going to face off with doug mastriano there. what do you think -- how do you think he's going to shape up against mastriano and shapiro? what do you think that race is -- >> i think that josh shapiro is probably the happiest guy in pennsylvania tonight. >> why is that? >> he got exactly what he wanted. he invaded the republican primary by running ads that were very -- statements about he's the most pro-trump guy in the race and basically building up mastriano for republican voters. and mastriano, many believe, he
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.