{"id":1479299,"date":"2022-05-18T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479299"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:45:01","slug":"too-close-to-call-pennsylvania-gop-primary-race-still-up-in-the-air-recount-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/too-close-to-call-pennsylvania-gop-primary-race-still-up-in-the-air-recount-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"TOO CLOSE TO CALL: Pennsylvania GOP Primary Race Still Up In The Air, Recount Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftoo-close-to-call-pennsylvania-gop-primary-race-still-up-in-the-air-recount-expected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Pennsylvania GOP primary for the state\u2019s open Senate seat is too close to call, with two candidates hovering within a few thousand votes of each other.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning, talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, former U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs and CEO of Bridgewater Associates, are locked in a tight race to become the Republican nominee, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKornacki\/status\/1526899074309533697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ\/status\/1526903745417818113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multiple<\/a> election forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates had a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanmatsumoto1\/status\/1526760471176437760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">percentage of the vote<\/a> hovering in the low-30s as results came in. If there remains a 0.5% difference between the two candidates, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1526758021807972353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an automatic recount<\/a> will be triggered.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the race, Oz led RealClearPolitics\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/pa\/pennsylvania_senate_republican_primary-7485.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polling average<\/a> with 26.8% of the vote, followed by Kathy Barnette with 24.2% and McCormick with 19.2%. McCormick had led in the polls until Trump announced his support for Oz in April, which gave the former talk show host a polling bump. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/pivotal-primary-races-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here Are The 12 Pivotal Primary Races Of 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7431680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7431680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennsylvania GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick greets supporters at the Indigo Hotel Tuesday evening after the polls revealed he had an early lead over Dr Mehmet Oz in the primary race on May 17, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Swensen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Multiple conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/laura-ingraham-trump-hannity-endorsement-dr-oz-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed concern<\/a> over Oz not being conservative enough prior to election day, with Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham asking former Trump-era senior counsel Kellyanne Conway if the endorsement was a mistake. Before running for office, Oz discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/15\/red-flag-gun-laws-infrequently-used\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red flag<\/a> laws and said a fetal heart is not beating at six weeks gestation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not receiving Trump\u2019s endorsement, Barnette, a right-wing candidate, began to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/kathy-barnette-mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">catch up<\/a> in the polls late in the game, surpassing McCormick. She <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DashaBurns\/status\/1526184172208914432\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attended the Jan. 6 protest<\/a>\u00a0prior to the Capitol riot and repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/13\/kathy-barnette-misrepresented-military-service-pennsylvania-senate-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misrepresented<\/a> her military service in interviews dating back nearly five years, a Daily Caller review found.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the primary will face off against Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who won his primary Tuesday night, in the general election. The race is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/senate-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rated<\/a> as a \u201ctoss-up\u201d by The Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania GOP primary for the state\u2019s open Senate seat is too close to call, with two candidates hovering within a few thousand votes of each other.As of Wednesday morning,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1483543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}