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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...

In many cases to stick with biden. despite misgivings about him, his plans and whether it was actually helping the country, they stuck with it for some reason and a lot of people like me today are thinking trump might be the problem. i'm sure there are many explanations. >> one thing to explore. so then as we were looking at the, i think we just need to take it day by day at this point. as we're looking at the day ahead, what do you think today as we like just made this projection, what else could today bring? what are you looking at? >> i'm in the same probably psychological place you are, wh...

So the scanner wasn't able to scan them. >> the biggest question now as this, these will eventually get counted, but the margin is still at this moment razor thin. there are laws that could trigger an automatic recount in the commonwealth. when are you going to know if there is going to be a recount? >> sure. so as i mentioned, you know, pennsylvania, the recount laws, automatic recount, if we're in the half of 1% margin which we are currently, so as i mentioned, next tuesday, the counties will send their unofficial returns to me. at that time, i'll make a determination as to whether or not we...

In many states, we have mandatory recount laws. if the vote is really close, there's a mandatory recount. so you don't need to avail yourself of those rights. a, first, it's not a problem. the second thing is it's handled if it's super close. we have recounts and examinations and that's what happened in 2000 in florida. i don't understand why if you wanted to make the second point, which is to say, well, of course, i want to make sure everything's legit here, why he needed to say the first thing. the first thing is, the sound bite that will play forever,ly accept the result if i win, which is ...

Look, the recall efforts are going to go ahead. the fact is one recall for state senator has already been filed. there will be more filed in the coming weeks. my anticipation is we'll see one recall filed about every four or five days over the next month. so the recall will happen no matter what. but the fact of the matter is if joann kloppenberg wins, that will be a significant energy boost for the recall efforts. remember, the recall petitioners have been at the polling places today gathering signatures and i can tell you for instance in the milwaukee area alberta darling's district they've ...