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. the 26-year-old cawthorn conceding after multiple scandals, everything from bringing a loaded handgun through a
including delaware county as well as votes coming in in bucks county and lancaster county. now, that s going to be interesting because there are roughly around 7,000 to 8,000 votes there that they re going to have to hand count due to a clerical error. so all of this might take quite a while. that s exactly what david mccormick said tonight. but again, he s saying he feels very, very good about it, as are his advisers as they cleared out this room tonight, don. all right. listen, i want to get now to jeff zeleny. jeff, from kristen to you, it s only 2,600 votes between mccormack and oz right now. he still believes he can pull it off. can he? what are they thinking? reporter: without question. i mean, don, this is absolutely it is more than too close to call. the votes simply have not all been counted yet. so we are going to have to take a collective deep breath, that election day is going to turn into a second day, perhaps an election week. this is something that happens in close
john, i asked jeff zeleny, mehmet oz is hopeful. he believes he can pull it off. can he? he sure can. look, this thing is tight as a tick. take a look at this. 2,600 votes. 86% in. votes outstanding all over the place. but if you want evidence that kathy barnette could be acting as a spoiler for oz after the trump endorsement, take a look at places where kathy barnette s in first place, like montgomery county. now this is her home county. it s the third largest county in pennsylvania. oz is in second place. so you see there s evidence that they re eating into each other s bases. and if you add those two numbers up of course mccormick s in a distant third. but mccormick may have been able to come through the middle. take a look where he s rising which is surprising. rural counties. traditionally rural counties are the heart of trump country, especially in a state like pennsylvania. mccormick outperforming in a lot of these rural counties. also something interesting to take a look at.
so nobody should be breathing easy in either camp. but at least a little bit of big mo heading toward dr. oz. 31.2%, 31.2%. as a local anchor and reporter in pennsylvania, charlie, you know, that was one of the first things they told me, it s lancaster, not lancaster. lancaster county. and i m happy to speak pennsylvania dutch to you too don lemon. i know how to do that. we ve got a long way to go. we just got started. thank you. we re going to take a quick break here but we ve got lots more election results to come in tonight including the governor s race in pennsylvania and how it can impact the 2024 election. and madison cawthorn conceding. stay with us.
short time ago. there are still a few of them milling around here. he also predicted victory. he thanked former president donald trump, whose endorsement of course helped pull him toward the finish line. we ll see if it pulls him across the finish line. but he said this will not be settled this evening, it will be settled in the coming hours, perhaps days. so don, this is what is happening at this hour. we are in newtown, pennsylvania outside of philadelphia in bucks county. and as kristen was just saying, this is one of the many places where there are a lot of votes yet to be counted. this is a strong area for dr. oz but also dave mccormick performed pretty strongly as well. and one thing that will be a distinction to keep an eye on going forward, early votes versus election day voting. the mccormick campaign had more of an early vote strategy. they did well on early votes, at least anecdotally, and if there are more early votes to be counted that could benefit them. however, dr. oz t