- And friends, I want to thank President Donald J Trump.
- There were primaries in five states,
but the big ones that were watched the most closely
were in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
A kind of Trump-backed Republican Ted Budd
won the Republican senate primary,
and he will take on Cheri Beasley,
the Democratic nominee.
That will put a match-up between a Republican
who is a denier of the election
versus a potentially history-making woman.
But it's a very hard state for Democrats to win.
I think they're hoping that Cheri Beasley
will be able to really excite suburban voters,
and also note that there's
a large African American vote in the state.
- It is all hands on deck.
- So there are two big statewide races in Pennsylvania,
a governor's race and also a Senate race.
In the governor's race, Democrats cleared the field.
They had one candidate, Josh Shapiro,
the attorney general of the state,
and so of course he coasted to victory,
since he had no opponent.
But on the Republican side, Doug Mastriano,
the loudest voices against the 2020 election in Pennsylvania,
urging the president to come there,
talking frequently with the president's advisors
in the run-up to January 6th.
He was in DC at a Stop the Steal rally on January 6th.
He won on the Republican side. - That's how we do it.
People like you and us rising up together,
standing in the gap for our states and nations,
not standing aside, not being bullied by the lies,
of course, in the media.
- The Republican strategists that I talked to
are very worried about him,
because they are concerned that he's so extreme
that he won't be able to win in November,
and so there had been a sort of last-minute effort
by some establishment Republicans
to make sure that he did not win the nomination,
but in fact, he did.
- The left, together with their friends
in the traditional media, of course,
they're trying to paint us in a particular picture.
My campaign has no place for hate, bigotry, and intolerance,
and that's the same for -- that's right.
- I mean, I think one of the things you definitely
are beginning to see in these primaries
is that Trumpism is outrunning Trump the person.
So what I mean by that is, there are candidates out there
who are sounding and campaigning just like Donald Trump did,
and Trump is not always endorsing them.
He's sort of sometimes playing the role
of what an establishment Republican kind of does,
to look down the road and say, "Well, actually,
could that person win in a general election?
Maybe we shouldn't be backing somebody
who's saying these things."
Certainly, Mastriano's a great example.
Trump decided just at the very end to get there.
But also Kathy Barnette, who did not win in Pennsylvania,
she very much was in the Trump vein of candidates.
So in some cases, Trump has been sort of
catching up to his own movement.
- President Trump endorsed me last June, and he said this.
He said, "Ted, I'm endorsing you
because you never wavered on America First policies."
- One of the things that is interesting across
all of these Republican primaries,
and it was really underscored last night,
is you have hardcore election deniers
winning statewide in two states.
You look at North Carolina, where Ted Budd won.
He's a member of the House of Representatives right now,
and he is one of the 139 House members
who voted to object to the election on January 6th.
Mastriano, who was also a leading voice
for overturning the election in Pennsylvania.
He was out there pushing hard for those 90,000 votes,
and that's what Biden won by, to be disqualified.
And he would be, if he wins, the governor of the state.
Pennsylvania is perennially a swing state
in the presidential elections.
It's where elections are decided,
so the idea of having an elected official
who's the governor of the state
who has views that are well outside the established norm
on elections is significant.