kathy barnette trailing by about 12 points down there at the bottom.s the vote still to be tabulated? i can tell you, sean, if you are to look at the state of pennsylvania, i will show you in a moment, you can draw a t and find out where the republican voters vote and where the democrats vote in just a moment. however, this is pittsburgh, allegheny county, the hometown of david mccormick, well, okay, there it is. it is the second-largest of 67 counties. that gives you an idea of how many votes there are in allegheny county, in the city of pittsburgh, and about -- it is still early in that part of the state. down in the southeast, this greene county right here, that is the county and the city of philadelphia. there are a ton of votes here that have yet to be counted. number one populated county in the entire state out of 67. i was mentioning where you find votes in the state of pennsylvania. this is what pennsylvania did less than two years ago. joe biden, the official winner over donald trump by about 80,000 -- about 82,000 votes, in 2020, if you were

barnett and fulton county. office in franklin county. barnett in second place. take a look up here in northern county, it's a close. one mccormack at all, was barnett running a little bit behind. so in the senate race, here we are starting to see some same-day numbers, it's not as clear cut who that's going to work totally in favor here. a couple of good spot for all, as a couple good spot for barnett. if you are oz or barnett though, anytime your color comes up in the western part of the state, that's a particularly good sign because again, as we, say we are wondering if there's a mccormack joe graphic advantage here. at that up in the republican side. mccormack continues to lead. off has edged closer. barnett running a little bit further back. the other race to update you on here is that north carolina congressional race. madison cawthorn in the 11th district. we'll just checking out there, because we got a lot of votes for the red right. now cawthorn you can see has closed now the difference here is close to about 2000 votes. the good news for madison cawthor

she's at kathy barnett's campaign headquarters. look like they were doing a lot of dancing in the background earlier when we were there. what's the feeling there?wh kathy barnett's headquarters. sean, it has settled ever soed slightly. i was just a couple of minutes t ago as the crowdhe and the t candidate they were dancingci in the macarena colion i justng i think still veryni lively here in elizabethtown, pennsylvania. but it really was a testament to the momentum that barnett has gained in just a few short weeks. it was really stille just a two person two man race as of a month ago and then the last couple ofee weeks her momentum has really picked up. but we that , of course claim that criticism not only over some past statements she had mader but over the potentil she would have in battling out against john fetterman in the general. it's interesting kathy barnettti made the statement that she feels she'd be best equipped to letterman against and cited a 2013 incident when letterman took an unarmed black man for a shooting suspe

we see with kathy barnett and pennsylvania. certain part of the establishment, again, trump putting up don't these are not electable candidates. do not pass code, don't do it. they can't really get to their own base on this. with cawthorn, it seems like it's been a little bit more affective. how do you think about that? >> chris, i guess the good news is that, republican leaders and republican primary voters have finally found someone who is unacceptable. for a few years now, we've gotten the message from republican primary voters and a lot of that leadership that it's okay to lie. it's a case to spread conspiracy theories. it's okay to use speech that promotes violence. but, i guess if you do wear lingerie, and if you do accuse your colleagues of partaking in orgies and consuming illicit drugs, then that finally, get you kicked. out i think michael's point is important. republican leaders, we should try to take the positive here tonight. republican leaders should realize that, it is possible to stand up against people who beha

, to see if barnette really is cutting in oz's vote totals? >> yeah, so like i said, i want to see if there is a bit of an east/west divide here. because there is one theory here and you're looking at the biden/trump numbers. there is one theory that there could be a bit of an east/west divide that might benefit mccormick. but the other thing to keep in mind. we've seen this in the republican primaries so far this year. there is a difference between pennsylvania, where this plays in, the mail vote and the same-day vote. we saw this in 2020 how republican voters were more likely to show up and vote in person. but pennsylvania also has mail-in voting and i think there is going to be -- we've seen in other races, republican primaries the last couple of weeks, we've seen some pretty significant swings where the more moderate, level trumpy candidates do well where the mail-in votes are counted first and then when the same-day vote comes in, that is where the more sort of trump aligned candidate do better, the moderate candidates do worse. we saw th

anyway, kathy barnett is running for the u.s.hat has to be described as a purple state, not an easy won for a republican. in a general election, the media mob will rip her apart over all of these issues, all of these comments, all of these tweets. if she is unable to clear up these issues right now before the primary, it is my prediction, and i don't because a tough one to make, she will be utterly destroyed in a general election like she was in 2020. kathy barnett will never be able to win the general election against the radical left. she has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted. here with reaction, are two other candidates in the pennsylvania republican senate primary, jeff bartus. do you agree with my assessment now that we had a chance just in the last 36 hours? nobody paid attention to kathy. nobody paid attention to her past. do you agree that her chances are zero? >> sean kromah we need this seat. sean, you know i am a senate confirmed u.s. ambassador to denmark, green then come on the

kathy barnette and her supporters in a prayer circle. a short time ago, they were engaged in dancing. so it's been a night full of hope, especially here at the barnette camp. unexpected things have happened in this race. namely barnette's rise to her popularity. that happened earlier this month. that came from the supreme court draft opinion leak of roe v. wade as barnette really points herself to be the pro life candidate. so she saw a lot of momentum there. the question is now did that lead to turnout at the polls and that remains to be seen. a lot of hope in this room right now from elizabethtown. >> laura: thanks. and now to bryan llenas at the headquarters for dr. oz. he came in tonight loading most poms. what can you tell us? >> they came in with momentum. they believed that they had momentum especially after the president's endorsement in april. the big question is whether enough voters showed up today for the day of vote to support dr. oz. that endorsement from president trump was sought after by pretty much everybody here in the

who's leading in montgomery county, it's kathy barnette. kathy barnette lives in montgomery county. has 33% of the vote there, then there is mehmet oz at 27%, and then there is mccormick. when you talk about a race of just a few thousand votes, that's what we're talking about. kathy barnette's potential impact here on this race. where at polling locations here today, stephanie, a great number of voters said they were heavily considering her, of course not enough ultimately voted for it to give you the win. she may have changed the outcome in this race, if mehmet oz is not able to take the lead here. so she took a big bite out of oz her advisor, happy to talk about that with you to talk about that with you. how about his advisors? has his campaign said anything to you tonight? >> yeah just in the last ten minutes they said they feel good about the direction this is heading in. while noting it is, tightening. and i think steve is better at cracking down the numbers. i gotta be frank with you stephanie, you know you have these conversations. campaigns are usually hedging their bets on

and barnette at 22.9.. 22% of the vote now in. let's go to mastriano headquarters. if he takes the lead how is trump influence felt within the campaign? >> doug mastriano is running to be the pennsylvania governor in 2022. but he has made his campaign all about 2020. he is really made lies about the 2020 election a corner stone of his campaign. he was in washington on january 6 for the stop the steal rally. and he has been leaning in to the big lie here tonight, moments ago he had jenna a former trump lawyer up on stage. they were two leading figures in the effort to over turn the election. and they both have been subpoenaed by the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol. now it's worth reminding viewers at home that the governor of pennsylvania is going to appoint the secretary of state. who will over see the state election process. so the stakes here are incredibly high. that is one of the reasons why some republicans here are also privately panicking over the prospect of

barnett, kathy barnett actually is leading overall. and leading the election day vote. one interesting thing to note here, on the ballots in pennsylvania, they list the candidates home county on that. barnett listed montgomery county, so the doctor oz. both of them list montgomery, they are running 12 in montgomery. they need to the bucks county, less of the same day voting here. but here it is oz who is getting the same day vote, and it is oz who is leading. each candidate with a little bit something to brag about in these philadelphia suburbs. we get a lot from delaware, overall with this adds up to, it's mccormack in awe's, and you can draw a line and it's barnett statewide. if you add up all of just the election day vote that we counted, the vote that was cast it in person. it's gonna be about 90% for all of this election. right now let me get these numbers exactly right for you. the election day vote right now would be 32 32%. i don't know why this isn't right. august 32 mccormack 31. you think that that's 32? steve >> i know planning, that's any of that. >> office

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by the way, democrats love the idea of kathy barnett winning now. it could be our only chancee we have to get this right the nexty two years to stop biden's radical climate alarmists religious cult agenda a, a new green deal agenda. look at this wholesale wholesale prices nowce 11%, a nw 40 year high even fake news. cnn reporting that americans now are skipping meals, racking up debt. 66 66% of american families living paycheck to paycheck gas prices all week long hitting one new record high after another. y and you know how joe responded it cancels yet another mass of oil and gas lease in alaskask and one in the gulf of mexico. genius that he is i guess he's going to go back and make an iranian deal , a venezuelan deal , beg opec to produce energy when we have our ownme energy. meanwhile, a response to the nationwideane, r baby formua shortage circle back final day. jen psaki suggested that worried parents call . doctor what's the doctor going to do? where does the doctor have baby formula b? >> what a dumb answer. said it waslt a public health que

this is an example of the deep estate turning against kathy barnett.ns and conservatives, we need a black woman like kathy burnett rep resenting us, speaking for us, she does speak for america. i think we are making a huge mistake by slandering her. >> laura: the pile on is something to see, here is dr. oz responding to this heat that he has got. >> money groups have now come into pennsylvania with outside money and they are wrongly supporting kathy barnett and putting her in contention, when you're an outsider, the establishment coming after it with everything they've got to come i've been able to stand on my own 2 feet very proudly and live up to the promise of my campaign. >> laura: your reaction, he's a very well-known person, he has enormous amount of celebrity and star power. because he is an outsider, she is an outsider, it's hard to follow that. >> it's hard to follow what you have a woman who started a campaign with three individuals going out campaigning and talking to people directly -- all of a sudden she is in a statistical tie with someon

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they went to barnett in the northern part of the state.ere is where we yard, .2% between mccormick and dr. Öz. again, it is bucks county and delaware county, where are they? the southeastern corner. 53% of the vote is then, so you've got about 47% outstanding . down here in delaware, this is delaware county here. there reporting 27% of the vote. that got three quarters of the vote. you don't know, shannon, whethe or not the difference between those two counties can make a difference. now it is .3%. we get them at the moment to go. so can mehmet Öz make up 2500 votes? it is tough to say. it really flicks at the moment that this is definitely going t be an automatic recounts and that is the rule in pennsylvani and that appears to be the case between these two here tonight. i do want to show you this because we are coming up at 11: 30 and let me get you the right one here pick the governors race in idaho is fascinating. you've got him being challenged by the lieutenant governor. any time that the governor left the state of idaho during the pa

the barnett fallout will no doubt continue. but the more salient question is this: with all his fame, and all his celebrity, and all of the big endorsements, why hasn't doctor oz been able to seal the deal with the pennsylvania voters? white is thought? >> besides making democrats are very, very happy, what is happening inside the gop, what are they doing? >> it is a little bit odd, even in that clip, stephanie, to see that now islamophobia, and homophobia is a problem for them, right? they have been peddling in that game for a while. i think that what barnett is doing is taking it to the next level. and they are getting to this place of, oh you are going a little too far. but when we see her tweets, when we hear about what she is posting in the past, it fully aligns with what we see from the extremist right within the gop today. so, i think that part, paired with the fact that republican voters and pennsylvania have made it explicitly clear that they do not want anything to do with oz, that they are falling in behind her, beca

. >> barnette has repeatedly called barack obama a muslim, tapping into trump's birtherism. tonight she is in a statistical tie with the two other gop candidates. trump endorsed dr. oz, millionaire businessman, david mccormick. now, to be clear, all three are election deniers succumbing to the big lie, but barnette isn't speaking in code like some maga candidates do. as blatant as the muslim ban was and the don't say gay bill, barnette is, if you can believe it, going further. >> there are tweets people uncovered from your past targeting muslims, targeting people who are gay. what do you feel about those messages when you look back on what you tweeted out? >> well, i believe it is very unfair to take a snippet -- i don't know how many characters that is -- and say, okay, we're going to take this clip and this is what she meant, right. we have no beginning, we have no end. we don't know what the context was. >> when you say -- i mean this tweet says pedophilia is a cornerstone of islam. >> yeah, nope, i -- i don't think that's me. i would never have said that. >> so here is t

barnette: hey guys. thank you so much for coming.t this month, political commentator kathy barnette has surged, with polls showing her in a three-way tie for first. barnette is also a longtime anti-abortion activist, whose personal story being born out of rape is resonating with conservatives. ms. barnette: my family saw value in my life. i'm very grateful for that. we have people that look at the constitution as if it's a list of suggestions. lisa: on friday, president trump put out a statement saying she can't win, but he also praised her. what did you think about mr. trump's statement? ms. barnette: we know that president trump did not mix words. i think that letter was favorable. and i look forward to working with the president. katie: she does have room to just get this last mute momentum. lisa: katie meyer covers state politics for whyy and met us at club house diner. i asked her about barnette's chances in the fall. katie: i think anybody who sees somebody who's more extreme, or not somebody who is, as trump said, not vetted,

barnette has endorsed mastriano. donald trump has endorsed mastriano. are the two of them kind of collecting votes in tandem. if mastriano runs away with the republican primary for governor in pennsylvania, is he lifting up kathy barnette with him? are they tracking equal strength in similar places. that's one thing we'll be looking for here. on the democratic side, josh shapiro, state attorney general running unopposed. he's been running ads, sly ads ostensibly attacking mastriano. they are also designed to boost mastriano's credibility with the hard core trump base of the republican primary. democrats believe mastriano is the weakest candidate and the one they want to run against. the backdrop here is from a senate standpoint, this is an absolute must-win state for democrats. the governor's race is mixed up in this, too, very interesting different directions that the republicans could choose to go here today. >> let me ask you this quickly here, steve, which is if oz pulls through -- trump made this calculus that c

kathy barnett is a veteran. a radical right political commentator who appears to be gaining traction of the republican primary voters, in large part, to her authentically extremist views. in an old blog post she once referred to the, quote, homosexual agenda as a moral and perverse. going to quote, make no mistake, homosexuality is a targeted group in the bible, right along with, cheats drunkard, spoilers, foul mouthed, extortionists, robbers, and then other habitual sense. but she is best known for her frankly disgusting anti-muslim bigotry. just listen to come and she made the need to be uploaded back in 2015 uncovered by journalist andrew kaczynski. >> the mindset of a muslim is very different from the mindset of americans. and that's the reason why we cannot fully understand the level, the depth of the depravity. the depth of the if. because it is not part of the american fabric, for the loss of. >> we wanted to run a test where we replace muslims with jews to see if that sounds, if it's, gowns or they will

why then did kathy barnette benefit?ks. >> her partnership with doug mastriano is very beneficial. her story is very compelling. she's talked on the trail about how she is a, quote, this is how she puts it, by-product of a rape. and how that has influenced her views on abortion. her mother was 11 years old when she was conceived. a lot of voters that i talked up brought up that bio brought up her pro life positions. and she also, you know, made a name for herself within the republican grass roots leading this hunt for baseless voter fraud after her 2020 house race that she lost. >> david urban, what do you make of your former boss, president trump's statement, relative to barnette. i quoted see the li dan. it's some real pretzel logic to say she's not been vetted. but if she is vet and wins i'll be supporting her. >> well, you know, the president is trying to have it both ways there, michael. clearly as robert and you pointed out, there is the lack of journalism, investigative journalism in this instance is just kind of

kathy barnette lives in montgomery county. of the vote there, then there is mehmet oz at 27%, and then there is mccormick. when you talk about race or just a few thousand votes, that's what we're talking about. kathy barnette's potential impact here on this race. where napoleon location here today, stephanie, a great number of voters said they were heavily considering her, of course not enough ultimately voted for it to give you the win. she may have changed the outcome in this race, if mehmet oz is not able to take the lead here. so she took a big bite out of oz her advisor, happy to talk about that with you to talk about that with you. how about his advisors? has his campaign said anything to you tonight? >> yeah just in the last ten minutes they said they feel good about the direction this is heading in. while noting it is, tightening. and i think steve is better at cracking down the numbers. i gotta be frank with you stephanie, you know you have these conversations. campaigns are usually hedging their bets on the day. as p

oz versusday mccormick versus kathy barnett. the top three on the gop side to replace senator pat toomey who is retiring. many scratched their heads over how the pennsylvania gop party oversaw this whole thing and why they would have allowed it to become a battle, a three-way battle. they each have 20% in the layest polls. now it's down to the wire on the gop side. early on, a big battle for the nod from the former president. that went to dr. oz. that was a move that some conservatives said was a mistake. tonight we'll see who is right about the dr. oz pick on the part of the former president. on the democrat side, the person that hopes to flip that senate seat from republican to democrat is john fedderman. he's in the hospital with a stroke said to be recovering. he won't be there for tonight's big celebration if that's what he has to celebrate this evening. so here's what "the new york times" wrote about it. they said this race threatens to implode the state's republican party with a blast radius that might be felt as far away

barnett frequently spewed.t once, not one day, not occasionally, quite a bit of hateful rhetoric. once asked her followers to pray for her because she was about to board the plane to california and there was a homosexual female on the flight. she also insinuated obama was a muslim. this welcome up in the general election. she called for islam to be banned in the united states. kathy, we have something called freedom of religion this country. what of del my part of that are you not understanding? kathy barnett never seemed to have an answer. take a look. >> where were you an adjunct college professor? >> let me make this really short for you. you can go to my website. we place right there on the front page, around my family is a will and the things you want to know about kathy barnett, an overwhelming majority of the tweets that are now being presented are not even full thoughts bear they're not even full sentences. and yet people take it and they begin to build their own narrative around it. i can't provide a l

perhaps the biggest is the surge of candidate kathy barnett. was here this morning casting her ballot. we were here with her. barnett is a candidate who first rose to prominence on claims of election fraud, including in her own election back in 2020, she ran for congress here. i will say, she has recently taken a turn in her messaging on that. last night, she instead of talking about her loss because of alleged election fraud, which we know to be false, she instead talked about the fact she lost by fewer points than trump. when she was here, we asked her whether voters she's asking to turn out for her, whether they can trust the process. >> make sure you are coming out and voting. don't allow anything to discourage you. every republican, you need to be at the polls. you need to make sure your voice is heard. i'm so excited. >> win or lose, will you back the republican nominee? >> i will. >> do you have any connection to the proud boys? >> thank you so much. >> mccormack made his way across pennsylvania, making his final case to voters. we caugh

and also making barnette a target.bc's dasha burns is in lancaster county, pennsylvania, with her exclusive interview of kathy barnette. so dasha, you had a chance to sit down with barnette, how does she explain this recent surge? >> garrett, look, this is a major twist in the 11th hour in what may be the highest stake race of the midterms. we spoke with her back in february, where she kind of foreshadowed this a little bit. she told me back then, look, you've got these two front-runners right now, the media is only paying attention to them. they're spending a ton of money, but they're from out of state, they're megarich. and when i'm in these rooms with voters, i get the sense that people are looking for something different. and as i've been on the ground here in pennsylvania talking to voter for months now, i have felt that resistance from a lot of folks to oz, despite the trump endorsement, and to mccormack, despite having so many former trump aides in his campaign. and having endorsements from ted cruz, from mike p

i just want to mention that kathy barnette just entered this room.hanking her supporters and hugging people. they are expecting her to do well in eastern pennsylvania. her campaign say they're feeling great that she's going to see a lot of late-breaking voters move her way. they expect to see her do well in places like bucks county, berks county, also the philadelphia area. they believe that she has done the work and that she will be rewarded for it by crisscrossing the state traveling hundreds of miles. she believes that the voters will support her. jake. >> athena jones, thanks so much. john king, some nail-biters going on in pennsylvania right now. >> remember, it took us a week to count the votes last time in pennsylvania in the presidential race. jake, it's home to you so 40% of the voters are in philadelphia and the counties around it. so can one candidate run it up where the more affluent, college educated republicans live? can they run it up here? this part here in the middle is trump country. does kathy barnette get that vote or does that en

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hand to viewers you can go to my website at barnette for senate.com.laced right there on the front page will see my family and around my family is a well only place within the things you want to know about kathy barnette. i've been running this race now for about 13 months. and if you listen to the mainstream media you would think i crawled from under iraq yesterday. i did not. we have been out here for 13 months. we started off doing about 90 miles a week and then bumped it up to in thousand. now these last couple of months we have been traveling over 150. i have been out here stomping the ground, getting to understand what the issues are in pennsylvania. and the immediate was derelict in their duty. i have been in a statistical tie for first place not just a one-week buck, but for about four weeks. so i have been out here during the hard work with the numbers have been showing it. no one paid attention to me they were too obsessed with the two men in this race did not take a bother to look at what we were doing pre- >> targeting the attention you hav

kathy barnette has an opportunity. that actually strengthens the opportunity if a fedderman has moving forward as someone who is a little more reasonable, a little more in the center. i think the us of america particularly in pennsylvania is a centrist nation. i think that people like kathy barnette are a little out of the mainstream. at the same time, they don't want these corporate figures. someone like fedderman has a strong chance despite how joe biden is polling >> charles: elijah, back to you. there's always that dilemma, the candidate in the primary may not be the perfect candidate in the general election. is that what the republicans are looking at right now? >> republicans and democrats are certainly looking at that. i think that's where you're seeing a lot of concern from national republicans and some republicans in the state about a surge from barnette. there's concern that she's easier to take down in a general election. so we're starting to see she has not been vetted. she was not one of the top candidates

if not for barnette, where would mehmet oz be right now, do you think? >> you've got to say, again, for reasons i just showed, that kathy barnette has taken away from oz's total. if kathy barnette hadn't been eating into odds's position you'd guess he'd be in pole position. i want to contrast how tight this race is. we could be heading to recount territory. with for example what happened in the governor's race. the governor's race tonight mastriano basically sweeps except for coal country. this is a decisive win. and on the democratic side where some folks thought there would be a competitive race between conor lamb and john fetterman, fetterman sweeps the state. >> what happened to conor lamb? >> this is one of the fascinating -- >> they thought he was the wunderkind. >> a centrist candidate tailor made to win a general election in a swing state. fetterman big personality, lieutenant governor, just took all the momentum. not a lot of enthusiasm behind conor lamb tonight. fetterman winning this from a hospital bed. >> right. and kenyatta did well, what,

welcome to frontrunner status for kathy barnette. it shows how the ecosystem has changed particularly on the right side of the aisle. her rise in many ways is a creation of this misinformation world of sort of republican trumpism, and now they are trying to stop it. do they have enough time? >> that is that the million-dollar question, chuck. this is a major, major twist in perhaps the most high stakes race of the midterms. listen, a lot of people did not see this coming, but here from the ground up we have been spending a lot of time in pennsylvania. here's sort of what has been happening here on the ground. you have oz and mccormick have been battling it out with attack ads, and voters have been watching that happen and have not been thrilled with that. a lot of the voters we have been talking to see the two frontrunners, and they see the attacks and buy them but buy them from both sides. for months now i have seen voters looking for the different option. and barnette meanwhile has been traveling thousands of miles across pennsylva

you can see still a lot to come in montgomery county, it is barnett, it is kathy barnett's home county. it is listed on the county ballot. it's limit of a home county listed at as his own as well. interestingly, our system we received vote from where we received votes from is not necessarily plugged into the website of the county. and we were just looking at the website of the county and the website of the counties reporting out, a few more votes that we have so far recorded in our system. the upshot of is. according to the website for montgomery county. office could be to net in the next few minutes to net about 1600 votes. this writing thing isn't working well. 1600 is what i'm trying to tell you. if that does get it into the system. what montgomery is telling on its website. the next statewide lead of about 2600 for mccormick would come down to about 1000. you see another county there just reported some votes out as well. we are getting a bits and pieces from around the state. there is an opportunity and also the home county of montgomery for him to narrow, for him to significantly

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it will not surprise me, nicole, if barnette wins tomorrow night.that it doesn't matter that she marched. i would ask, okay, tell me, police barnette, what happened when the crowd got to the capitol? where were you? what did you do? did you advance further? did you stay back? and then we'll wait for video tape, right, to show exactly what you did or did not do. so the reality of it is that doesn't matter. they don't care. they don't. the only thing that matters is that she gave an impassioned and very well done articulation of her pro-life views given the story of her mother and her life and all of that. and that was fine. and for enough people, that's okay. it doesn't matter whether you supported insurrection or not. it doesn't matter whether you were endorsed by trump or not. voters have sort of zeroed in and so for candidates like her, that's mcconnell's worst nightmare. >> there's this drama on the other side of the aisle. stick around through a quick break. we'll get to do democrats with claire on the other side. don't go anywhere. e other side

on the other hand , you have kathy barnett and her surge. david mccormick going with or touting the backing of former secretary of state mike pompeo.. they went to west point together, were a year apart and also that of senator ted cruz hoping all of us will come together and be enough to put him over the top. if you get ar t goodhe bit newse in the last hour, hour and a half or so and that's atha the democratic side of this race has been called john fetterman and lieutenant governor , the more progressive of the candidates beating out conor lambti, a congressman running as a centrist, they feel good about that and a potential matchup first they say they've got g to get through this first. clearly spectacularcl bridge. thanks so much.we we'll check back and now unite and fight. >> that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> well, whatever the outcome in this latest gopop primary tonight it's time to put aside differences shelve the petty squabbles, lot of nipping atip each other all come back together to take back the t senate in november. now u

barnett will win the county, but on this next vote on mccormack. this is a big county, a big suburban county right outside philadelphia. and look at that. does it brings the mccormick lead statewide to 1020 votes. it is now 1004 votes we. he's got another small update. from another county. it's one tenth of 1%. separating oz from mccormick. and as was just saying. we are getting significant both from philadelphia suburban counties. it makes bucks loom large. we can see we still have a lot about to come in in bucks, of at least early perhaps could be incurred by what we are seeing at a. bucks one of the other philadelphia areas here, the opportunity -- delaware actually we are close to all in delaware. so bucks looms particularly large now as an opportunity for oz to further our road that mccormack lead into trying to overtake mccormack. again, there are counties all across the state where we have scattering of those coming in as well. anything significant we see will let you know. but at the biggest single one, that we are keeping an eye on right n

oz and kathy barnett.s it possible that barnett has been able to fly under the radar with people thinking it's between you and dr. oz? >> i think what's happening now is the voters are really focused and they are asking demanding questions of everybody kathy barnett's case i have gotten to know her on the campaign trail and i appreciate her personal story but she has been tested over the last couple years and she lost the congressional race here in pennsylvania by 20 points now there are all sorts of questions being raised about her background experience and we have all had to answer those questions. it's quite appropriate that she gets stress tested like all the candidates get stress tested and i think pennsylvanians are ultimately going to decide based on those three questions that i mentioned and i am again presenting myself as someone who has been battle tested as a west point graduate, a combat veteran. someone who has created jobs in pennsylvania and someone who is a pennsylvania true guy. in other w

kathy barnette will never be able to win an election against the radical left.k forwrgard with the president so thank you so much. >> reporter: in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country a messy family feud deep inside the maga movement is spilling out for all to see. >> maga does not belong to president trump. maga although he coined the word, maga actually belongs to the people. our values never shifted to president trump's values. >> reporter: a compelling personal story sparked interest. >> grew up in a home with no running water, no insulation, an out house on the back and a well on the side. >> reporter: and her campaign roared to life as she pushed utterly false claims the 2020 election was stolen. she's linked her candidacy to doug mastriano. rival republicans are in a mad scramble to scrutinize barnette's background. >> we don't know much about her and she must be willing to share. >> reporter: an outside group also weighing in. >> meet kathy barnette. >> reporter: cnn found in a review she has a history of making anti-muslim stateme

oz, if he in fact gets beat by kathy barnette. way, how do you see the images of barnett, emerging on january 6, playing on this general election, if in fact she pulls through tomorrow? >> yeah, that's one of the big concerns, not just the trump side of the party, but the mitch mcconnell side of the party is concerned about, look, you're seeing, you know, a narrative emerge, going into the fall that once had republicans sort of narrowly taking the house. but with the real possibility of taking the senate. and now these candidates are beginning to emerge in primaries in some cases, in many cases, winning those primaries that now call into question the opportunity to take the seats in a general election. that's the reality of a barnette candidacy in the general election, the same as it is for dr. oz. don't think you go, you know, from bad to worse. it's saul the same mix in a general election between oz and barnette, her surge has a lot to do with the video she did on her position of abortion. abortion is going to be a real clear qu

is barnette electable?ennsylvania is concerned to say the least, against mastriano. barnette, it's the question of whether or not she's been tested enough. she was polling until 10 or 12 points lower. negative ads, did a lot of damage and people were look or an alternative. >> john fetorman seems like he has it locked up from the polling. is that polling correct? >> the polling is interesting. i do a radio show and i talk to black voters each and every day, and when i ask the question who they're voting for, the vast majority say they're voting for conor lamb. black clergy, the organization here in philadelphia endorsed conor lamb, many of the institutions have endorsed conor lamb and go with malcolm kenyatta to a smaller degree. inside philly, fetorman struggled to get his message to black voters in a way that connects. if he becomes the nominee at the end of the night, i think people are going to do what's in their best interest at the end of the day, but up until this point, i think we'll find out the po

she made some otherov controversial comments on the barnett falloutents willo doubt continue. but the more salient questionre is s this with all this fame and with all this celebrity and all the big endorsements, why hasn't dr. oz been able to seal the deal with thewh pennsylvania voters? why is that ? why is it about what is it about him that the voters aren't comfortable with ? pro mccormick pacs have dug up disturbing comments made about everything from gender transitioning for kids tog abortion to police involved shootings. here he is before he becamee a republican senate candidate buying into a false police shooting narrative shot seven times in the back family of jacob blake speaks out. he was trying to kill his devastating injuries three, four hours sleep. they think he'll be able tohe walk again, pulled a knife on a cop along with other things.eymi joining me now is jack ruo, a former nflr safety turned ceo who actually endorsed kathy barnett. jack, again, we want to get allg the information here. dave mccormick isnd a strong candidate. kathy barnett, i don't knowid be

, while an hour later, laura ingraham promoting barnette, announcing a smear campaign against barnette owes much of her feign to fox, likened hannity to a swamp monster trying to, quote steal the election. but we only know that thanks to an audio recording of barnette made by a rally goer and given to america. cnn and other networks were barred from attending this rally in bucks county, even though it was a public event anyone could attend. this was apparently at the direction of the leading gop candidate for governor in the state, doug mastriano. msnbc's dasha burns showed this man in a paul revere outfit telling her to step back, step back behind the cones, like she was some sort of threat. a threat for wanting to cover a campaign event. when i showed up on the scene in war minister, yesterday, reporters there told me it was basically a base-stoking strategy. it was an example of scorn for the media, uniting many republicans. so that seems to be the idea by shutting out the press. but i couldn't help but wonder, do these candidates have something to hide? why do i have to film from s

kathy barnette spent a fraction of that. on the traditional advertising, voter lists, the traditional things candidates do, you have seen all three campaigns and their ground game. talk to me about that piece of it. >> right, there's a lot of former trump hands who are helping mehmet oz's campaign, and jeff rowe, the mastermind of ted cruz's political operations is a part of this mccormick campaign here. these folks understood the million of dollars that it would require to not only knock doors, make phone calls, but there's these likely voter contact lists that are months in the making here. ultimately in these final days, as mark said, this state overwhelmingly votes the day of. they are using those resources to contact those very voters and get them out to the poles. kathy barnette, that operation didn't exist. yes, she worked hard the last 13 months going from county gop events to churches herself. but i was talking about a national adviser that came in literally four days ago, hallie, and said none of that was in place.

kathy barnette is the surprise.message even though donald trump says she would be a failed candidate. these are the candidates trying to keep this seat in republican hands. one of them will end tonight. listen to the closing message. >> as someone who went to pest point, went to combat, has created jobs in pennsylvania, i have the conservative values that allow me to show up in the senate on day one and make a difference. i want to be the loud voice in washington who can speak to our culture, our values. i am pro life and pro second amendment. >> i went and met with any and everyone who would listen to me. and i told -- i just -- i just ran a far superior campaign than my opponents. and now they're really mad. they're really mad. >> jeff zeleny is on the ground in pifhiladelphia as voters cas votes. jeff, what are you seeing? >> reporter: there is no doubt that kathy barnette has been the surprise over the last week or so. the question has she peaked too early? you cannot watch really more than a few moments of tele

this is his argument against barnette. >> what do we really know about kathy barnette?t and opposed trump saying i was not a trumper. we can't trust kathy barnette for senate. >> they don't deal with the fact that she has said bigoted things or she said that barack obama was not born in america. they -- it's not -- don't want to say that. to your point, saying she said bigoted things about gay people and transgender people. bigoted things about muslims. maybe that won't play into the republican primary to play that out? >> they're racing to try to figure out how to zop her from beating them in the last couple days. the super pacs didn't even start sending emails about her until a few days when they're realizing what a threat she is. one of the things that really stands out to me in this race is that the club for growth has endorsed kathy barnette, at least spent money on her in the race, putting 1 .9 million into advertising behind her. what we have now is the trump endorsement for dr. oz playing out against a background of this other major conservative group that has a

kathy barnett has her own baggage.onths kathy campaigned across pennsylvania drawing attention yet remaining largely an afterthought in the republican senate race. from the outside the race played out as a vicious two man brawl. >> mammoth has flipped flopped on every single issue. >> reporter: fueled by big money and big names of tv celebrity dr. david oz.. less than a week before the primary election, barnett's late surge is sending shock waves across the gop and ro provoked s warning for trump. kathy barnett will never be able to win the general election against the radical left. tiepts she gently disagreed. >> i look forward to working with the president. thank you so much. >> reporter: in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country which democrats believe offer the best chance to pick up a seat to help hold their majority, a messy family feud. deep inside the maga movement is spilling out for all to see. >> maga does not belong to president trump. all though he coined the word, maga belongs to the

kathy barnett. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. >> bret: i want to deal with the breans today if i could, first. you heard it in richens piece. nbc had these photos and video of you marching on january 6th the day of the right with the proud boys. the proud boys some of them obviously being indicted in some of the things that happened at the capitol. first of all, did you go into the capitol and how do you talk about that day? >> well, first of all, allow me to correct you. i was not with the proud boys. i was out there because i wanted to hear what the president had to say. i was also out there because i'm sure your listeners will understand the first five rights in the first amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. freedom to petition your government with grievances and freedom to assemble as well as freedom to -- a freedom of the press. so as a law abiding american citizen, i had every right to go to a rally in support of my president. that is what i was doi

but keep in mind, kathy barnette is a 50-year-old woman. that's like saying, "look, we all say and do stupid things when we turn 40! it's that carefree 22nd summer after high school!" and now to add-- ( applause ) and now to add insurrection to injury, this weekend, several news sites confirmed that this right here, is, in fact, kathy barnette marching to the capitol on january 6, alongside the proud boys. so she tried to overthrow an institution and now wants to work there? that's like holding up a bank and saying, "put the money in the bag! also, this seems like a pretty good gig. can i drop my resume off with you guys? by the way, how often do these robberies happen? ( applause ) because this seems kind of scary." for his part, the former president seems to be nervous that barnette's brand of intolerance will beat out his favorite grifter, but he's hedging his bets, putting out this statement: kathy barnette will never be able to win the general election against the radical left democrats. she has many things in her past which have not b