two, Okay, welcome back voters in five states headed to
the polls yesterday in primary elections, a trump
endorsed candidate in north Carolina was passed up by
voters in the state's Republican congressiona
Representative Madison cawthorn lost to state senator
chuck Edwards for the state's 11th district, cawthorn
may have become a trump favorite, but he wasn't able to
overcome several scandals, including being detained at
an airport for having a loaded gun. But it wasn't all
bad news for friends of the former president in north
Carolina, 26 year old bo Hines came out on top in the
Republican primary for a House seat in the states 13th
district. He'll now face Wiley Nikola two term senator,
state senator who previously worked for former
president. Obama Hawthorne's defeat and Heinz victory
paint a picture of the tumultuous influence of for
president trump and the Republican Party ahead of the
november midterms In Kentucky's only Democratic Hous
district, an establishment cand turned out to be
the favorite morgan McGarvey beat attica scott scott is
a state representative who ran on the far left, but
voters sided with McGarvey, the Democratic leader in
the state Senate. It's too close to call in
pennsylvania for the Republican nomination for US
Senate right now. Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz and former
hedge fund ceo David McCormick are locked in a tight
race as thousands of mail in votes have yet to be
counted. Newsy's National political correspondent Alex
miller's in philadelphia Alex, where does this race
stand Right now, it is still razor thin right now abou
0.2% points separate. Oz and McCormick about 2500 votes.
They still got, as you said, a ton of mail in ballots
account from a few of the counties that only have
roughly 75% of their votes in this is an incredibly
tight race and a possible recount could be comin
within the next few days. Either an automatic one from
the state or one of the candidates will likely
requested because the vote margin is just that thin.
They were able to hold off Kathy Barnett who was that
late surging candidate. She had the popularity and and
some would say the momentum going into election ni
But Oz endorsed by former President Donald trump.
McCormick, endorsed by former Secretary of State, Mike
Pompeo and Senator Ted Cruz. It's really been
interesting to watch how the factions of the trump wing
have split on this topic, but the reality is whoever
wins, whether it's Oz or McCormick, they have both been
incredibly supportive of the former president and will
likely continue to be supportive and promote his
policies throughout this genera election race. I also
want to talk about the Democratic race. John Fette
won handily over a handful of candidates, includin
pennsylvania congressman Connor who a lot of
people, I think thought might have been the future of
the moderate wing of this party. Someone that might
have been able to show what a win could look like in
these purple states, but you saw Fetterman win
overwhelmingly yesterday despit having a stroke on
friday. He went in for surgery to implement a pacemake
with a defibrillator during ele day. He got out of
surgery just about three hours before the race was
called for him. So he is going to be the nominee for
the party on that one. And then the race for governor
is going to be an incredibly important one here i
state of pennsylvania because the governor here has a
lot of power, of course the regular of responsib
but they also appoint the secretary of state which is
who is going to be in charge in the next election. So
basically the Democratic nomine is going to be josh
Shapiro. He ran unopposed very well supported and
beloved in this commonwealth of pennsylvania here. But
Doug mass Triano was the winner for republicans and he
beat out nine candidates in total, but he ran to the
right of all of them. He is an election denial. He
organized busses for the january 6th campaign and
promoted a lot of conspiracy theories relating to
election. He didn't want to see pennsylvania's election
results certified and so if he is to become governor in
november the next presidential election could hang in
the balance and we could see a completely differen
result in terms of certifying election results. Th
saw in 2021 other thing, I just want to add the
governor had the current govern tom Wolf has vowed to
veto any anti abortion legislation that comes across
his desk. Josh Shapiro vowed to do the same mass.
Triano himself has introduced and supported a number of
anti abortion legislation that has gotten to the
current governor's desk. If he is in the seat, we could
see pennsylvania. Should the Supreme Court overturn roe
versus wade to really strip it down, we could see
pennsylvania become one of the most anti abortion
states in the nation. Really significant races there
such a key battleground state of pennsylvania. National
political correspondent, Alex Miller reporting Live for
us.