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in the room tonight. john had a little hick up on friday while we were on the road campaigning. thank god he is already on his way to a full recovery. we are grateful to the nurses and staff at lancaster general for our family and all the families they serve. john wants to thank every single one of you. during the hardest week of our lives and this election, you made sure we all felt so supported and so loved. there is nothing john likes more than being on the campaign trail. the time off has been hard on him. back on friday i noticed something was off. he did not want to go to the hospital. he did not want to miss the events we had planned. but i insisted and as usual i was right. [laughter] and i m so glad i made him go for two reasons. the first is that doctors were able to act quickly and john is going to be back on his feet in no time. [applause] and the second reason is that i now have one more thing i get to hold over him. i mean, i saved his life, right? i will ....
the next senator of our great state. so before i get started, i would like to take a moment. my husband john fetterman is not in the room tonight. john had a little hick up on friday while we were on the road campaigning. thank god he is already on his way to a full recovery. we are grateful to the nurses and staff at lancaster general for our family and all the families they serve. john wants to thank every single one of you. during the hardest week of our lives and this election, you made sure we all felt so supported and so loved. there is nothing john likes more than being on the campaign trail. the time off has been hard on him. back on friday i noticed something was off. he did not want to go to the hospital. he did not want to miss the events we had planned. but i insisted and as usual i was right. [laughter] and i m so glad i made him go for two reasons. the first is that doctors were able to act quickly and john is going to be back on his feet in no time. [appl ....
he was that he had suffered a stroke and was recovering from surgery on the day of the election. thank you so much for joining us this evening. what a night. what a few days. you may have noticed i am not john federman fetterman. the next senator of our great state. so before i get started, i would like to take a moment. my husband john fetterman is not in the room tonight. john had a little hick up on friday while we were on the road campaigning. thank god he is already on his way to a full recovery. we are grateful to the nurses and staff at lancaster general for our family and all the families they serve. john wants to thank every single one of you. during the hardest week of our lives and this election, you made sure we all felt so supported and so loved. there is nothing john likes more than being on the campaign trail. the time off has been hard on him. back on friday i noticed something was off. he did not want to go to the hospital. he did not want to miss t ....
nomination. he is pennsylvania s leading far right figure. he was a champion of the big lie and the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he will face democrat 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. he might be the first person to do so from a hospital bed. he s out of surgery this morning after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker hours before the polls closed yesterday. we ll talk to his wife to get an update on his condition. in north carolina, first term congressman madison cawthorn has now conceded after losing the primary to state senator chuck edwards. it is a major rebuke of someone who was once seen as a rising star in the gop, but whose political career saw scandal after scandal from embarrassing photos to those claims about ori orgies that put him on the outs with ....
a man who attended the rally that led to the capitol insurrection and also now the man who won the republican nomination for the governor s race there. he will now face pennsylvania s attorney general josh shapiro in the general election. a lot going on in pennsylvania. so let s go there. cnn s athena jones is starting us off live in lancaster, pennsylvania, with more on this deadlocked senate race. what s the latest that you re picking up? reporter: you mentioned, we re talking about the two leading candidates trading the lead back and forth. in the wee hours of last night. a lot to be determined. could be very close causing a recount. there s a problem though because a lot of votes still need to come in counties across the state. this is one of those counties. lancaster county where we learned early yesterday that about 22,000 mail-in ballots were misprinted with the wrong code, so they could not be scanned by the machines. here you see a room full of county staffer ....