early in the month, kathy barnette had a sudden surge in popularity, and really, sean, it coincided withking of a supreme court draft opinion regarding roe v. wade, right after that, barnette came out and said she was conceived of a product of rape when her mother was 11 years old and she would be considered the most pro-life of all candidates, so that gained a lot of momentum there, but within the increased gains, she saw a lot of criticism, including over the past tweets per critics have labeled homophobic and anti-muslim. people within the republican party, such as former president trump, say this has made her -- her history largely on a unappealing. moderates and independents that a general election would really rely on. that is something we know voters have considered. i did speak to a vote earlier today wearing a trump 2020 shirt, and i asked him if he had made up his mind, he said he just did before going into the polling location, and he said he ended up casting his vote for kathy barnette. he felt she was the true conservative here. and sean, i also want to talk about because we

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

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

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

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

oz and has put out a statement saying don't go for kathy barnette, the statement also said that she has a future in the party and co support her. so a bit of a mixed message there. so there is a cross pollination of the barnette vote as that comes in tonight. the other wild card, josh shapiro unaposed for the democratic nominee. his campaign has been putting up ads that are ostensibly to a democrat and attacking trying to increase masthiano's credibility with republican primary voters and playing up his questioning of the 2020 election. shapiro wants to run against masthiano and what this all builds to is just the question for the general election in pennsylvania, if a mastriano, if a barnette wins in the senate race, what makes some republicans tau you can to nervous about pennsylvania, i look at it this way. joe biden won pennsylvania, you could see here in 2010. remember he flipped it. trump had a won in 2016, biden won it by 80,000 votes in 2020. donald trump won it by 46,000 votes in 2016, so there was a swing about 126,000 votes between 2016 and 2020. that is the difference betwee

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

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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

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

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 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

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

jake. >> let's go to athena jones at kathy barnette's senate campaign headquarters in elizabethtown, g to do well this evening? where are her parts of pennsylvania? >> reporter: hi, jake. i just want to mention that kathy barnette just entered this room. a big roar, cheers went out as she came in thanking 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 can

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

kathy barnett never seemed to have an answer.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 lot of context because again, it's almost ten years ago. >> was your contact? i'm very curious about this. >> regarding those particular tweets, if you look at your tweets, they're not even a full thoughts. it's not even a full sentence. it's not even a full sentence. so there is more to follow. and because it was seven, eight years ago, i don't know what it is. and when presented initially, i had no idea. it was just ambushed. speak okay. when asked about it, she says, it doesn't sound like me. why is it on your timeline?

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

i think kathy barnett outperformed and that's where we are heading into tonight. >> martha: there's a lot of discussion about barnette on the gop side. the two of them may be a difficult general election pair. when you really think about it, that's where president trump's support will really get evaluated in the end. >> that's right. if you go down to the issues, the issues line up in a place like pennsylvania. it's gone blue, purple, red in the last couple elections we've seen. the trump vote is still very prevalent there. so he would have a big impact in general election. the fact that he's making robo calls against kathy barnette and speaking out for mehmet oz is significant. we'll see. it's all about turnout as every election is. is who gets out and get out that vote effort materializes for each campaign. >> martha: we'll be watching, bret. great to have you here today. we learned after casting an emergency ballot vote, lieutenant governor john fedderman has announced he will undergo surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. that we'll keep you posted on. we know he was still in the

oz and mc cormick have been an in this late surge by kathy barnett, sh has not conceded. she's wrapping it up for the night and no one has conceded. what do you think of her late rally. you and i have both interviewed her with them the last few days. there was a role hope and momentum within our campaign that she could pull off something rather stunning. >> i think that she was coming in and the other to candidates were caught offguard by her success. i said earlier tonight going in judging by the polls, it was anybody's ballgame. dave mccormick could come in third at the beginning of this night as going into election da but as we know the only poll that matters is the election poll and people voting. kevin -- kathy barnett had an interestin run and she had some controvers in the final days in both campaigns realize the threat that she was and spent some tim going after her, even the forme president having a robo call specifically mentioning her in his endorsement of dr. oz in a phone an event. and i think it is going to come down to that she was a major factor in this ra

fine and will make a full recovery, and then on the republican side, images were found that show kathy barnettes the capitol on january 6th. and darsha, i want to start with you. what is the latest on barnett. what have we verified and what do we currently know? >> katy, even more twists in this high stakes race in just the last 24 hours, i am using my indoor voice right now because we are at a mccormick event right now, barnette's opponent is holding an event here and we are going to talk to him right after this. over the weekend at the same time as we learned of the news of fetterman's stroke, we saw news circulating on social media that were believed to be kathy barnette at the capitol on january 6th. we knew from her statements in the past that she did go to washington on january 6th. she organized buses to attend those events. this is the first time, though, we have actually seen her in person there, and nbc was able to verify this was, in fact, barnette, and she's seen marching toward the capitol alongside known members of the proud boys, in fact, two of whom were arrested and indictment

a and in think this is an example of the deep state now turned against kathy barnett, republicans and conservatives. we needrnett. a black woman like kathy burnett representing us ,e speakingnt for us . she does speak for americak and i think we're making a huge mistake by slandering her and the pipeline is quite something to say.. here's dr. oz today responding to the heat that he's gotten. what's ironic is big money groups never trump groups haveid now come into pennsylvania with outside money and they'reed wrongly supporting kathy barnett and putting her in contention. when you're an outsider c, the insider establishment they come after with everything they've gottablbl and been ableo stand on my own two feet f very proudly and live up toca the promise of my campaign cpac relaxium dr. ozzy, as you know, he's a he's a very well knownmo person. he has an enormous amount oflebr celebrity and star power and i guess but he's anow outsider. >> she's an outsider.t it's hard to follow that hard to follow whent' you have a womn who started the campaign with three individuals going out campa

here is the dynamic, mastriano endorsed kathy barnette in the senate race. there's a question here because 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 --

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

kathy barnette will never be able to win the general election against the radical left.president, so thank you so much. >> it's a sign you're on the rise, would you agree? >> i would agree. >> reporter: in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country, which democrats believe offers 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, although he coined it, it never shifted to president trump's values. >> reporter: a compelling personal story sparked interest in her candidacy. >> i'm a little black girl from a pig farm in alabama who grew up with no running water, an outhouse in the back and a well on the side. >> reporter: she pushed utterly false claims the election was stolen and linked her candidacy to doug mastriano. suddenly the polls show a three-way contest. rival republicans are in a mad scramble to scrutinize her background in hopes of slowing her surprising rise. >> she is a mystery person. we don't know much abo

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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 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

kathy barnette with 23.7%. let's go to john king at the magic wall. john, what is going on here? coming in from? >> that could be the case, jake. maybe she peaked too soon. both mccormick and oz turned on her when they realized she was a threat. we still have a little more than a third of the votes to count. the deep red is mccormick carrying in a lot of territories that donald trump led in. it's gone from about 6,000, up to about 8,500 in the last hour or so and more and more votes come in. number one, what's missing? what votes have not been counted? we're about 64% statewide. i just want to move this back to about 72%, 73%. so these counties have reported 73% or less of the vote, meaning there's more votes to be counted. a lot of them are over here in the more populous part of the state, especially around philadelphia. you do see some counties out here. beside eerie county, most of the counties you're seeing in the west have a very small population. let me bring this back to the full map. what else do you see in this map? the reason mccormick is so competitive is he's doing wel

kathy barnett i'll just assume that she is apologizing for all of this. have to imagine that this is now going to become in the next 30, 24, 72 hours a political earthquake in this primary. because now the people of pennsylvania are going to see a luminous amounts of material that they have not seen on kathy barnett. and this is not to be against her the question to me is very simple. is that she obviously doesn't like president donald trump i've a whole stack of negative donald trump tweets. how she claimed to be a maga conservative and trash donald trump all the time? >> two weeks ago when one of our debates she said that she was maga and that president donald trump actually came to her and the other maga people in america it wasn't his idea he adapted their ideas. i was so caught off guard by the commentary but i'll post all these on dr. oz.com if you want to see them. national televised debate. that is the level of confidence that she has and what she is articulating. but she is a mystery person, we don't really know much about her we have so you unde

you know, the tweet that kathy barnette now denies writing, right here in black and white. you can read it for yourself. folks like steve bannon are calling this race maga versus ultra-maga. "politico" reports the gop is launches an operation to stop barnette, worried she can't win in the general election. trump says she would lose to the democrat. folks like sean hannity are freaking out. >> and now we are uncovering many troubling comments and tweets that would very likely cause her to lose badly in a general election. this is a very important state. there are so many questions she has never answered and many tweets that likely render her unelectable in pennsylvania. >> the gop is reaping what it sowed as more and more extremist candidates not only run but win races, like j.r.majewski who supported qanon, in d.c. on january 6th. he won a gop house primary in ohio. mitch mcconnell warned republicans they could hurt themselves this year with extreme candidates. we may be seeing that happen right now. joining me now tim miller, msnbc political analyst and writer for "the bul

take, for example, kathy barnett. who, suddenly, is surging in the polls in the republican u.s. senate primary, and pennsylvania. if you have recently become aware of kathy, it may be because of this campaign video she released, earlier this month. and, it she explains, she wants to make abortion illegal, with no exceptions for rape, or incest, because she, herself, is the product of rape. her mother, ray today 11, and kathy barnett says, she's glad abortion was not an option for her mother. therefore, her position appears to be, all 11-year-old girls who are raped in the united states should be forced to carry their rapist babies to term. which, apparently, struck a chord with many republican primary voters in pennsylvania. but, although that is how kathy barnett made a national name for herself most recently, for the last year and a half, she has been a stop the steal advocate. ever since she, very expectedly, lost a congressional race to a democrat, in a blue pennsylvania district in 2020, kathy barnett has been crisscrossing the state, hunting for phantom voter fraud that, su

, take a look at places where kathy barnette's in first place, like montgomery county. now this is her home county. it's the third largest county in pennsylvania. oz is in second place. so you see there's evidence that they're eating into each other's bases. and if you add those two numbers up of course mccormick's in a distant third. but mccormick may have been able to come through the middle. take a look where he's rising which is surprising. rural counties. traditionally rural counties are the heart of trump country, especially in a state like pennsylvania. mccormick outperforming in a lot of these rural counties. also something interesting to take a look at. this is coal country. now, dr. oz is performing particularly well in coal country. however, mccormick is doing pretty well in suburban counties and also this base of pittsburgh where he grew up. so you see mccormick has a lot of room to grow in some of the bigger counties in the state but it's pretty clear that barnette ate into oz and that's got to be driving the trump folks crazy tonight. >> listen, that was o

[inaudible] the stars aligned for kathy barnette.ou, said those photos can only endure her more to the primary voters, and find her incredibly authentic. she is the and politician, she says whatever she feels, timing again was unbelievable. after the leak of the draft opinion from justice alito, she has this amazing video out to go to the heart of the primary electorate about how she was the result of the rape of her 11 year old mother, and she still believes in no exceptions as a pro-lifer for rape or incest or anything else. culture is going gaga for her over on twitter, everyone thinks she is the real deal, and now she has the endorsement of scott perry, her pennsylvania congressman we who is under subpoena from the january six committee and had a role in the two month coup plot. so i think if you're oz and mccormick, you just ran into a buzzsaw of bad luck because in the seven days she had, to have all these things come into place, and the fact that even though trump said she is really trouble, and can't win the general election,

today, the president sent out a message saying kathy barnett will never win in the general election. what is your response to that? >> and then the second paragraph? but if she should get through, she will have a wonderful career. and i will be there to support her. >> republicans are so worried about another far-right big lie promoter, pennsylvania state senator doug --, he is now running to be the republican nominee for governor. and i want to share what he shared in the recent debate. >> the most important thing is i get to a the secretary of state. and the secretary of state, they will clean up the election laws. we will reset, in fact, the registration. you will have to re-register. you will have to start all over again. >> tonight, axios reporting that he might also get trump's backing in the form of an official endorsement. with that, let's bring in our experts. a longtime pennsylvania reporter, and the editor in chief of and the capital star., -- mcquade, she worked with the department of justice during the biden transition, and is a professor at the university of michigan la

[cheers and applause] >> kathy barnett is currently in third.vals if they defeat her. >> from day one, i have made you the main thing. you didn't see me run an ugly campaign. you didn't see me put those ugly ads. i made the maim theme you. >> lieutenant governor john fetterman cruising to an easy win in the democratic primary. he voted from the hospital after suffering a recent stroke. vacated by retiring g.o.p. senator pat too maniy. ted budd won the north carolina richard burr who is retiring. >> now on to november joe biden beazley a total joe biden rubber stamp in washington, d.c. republicans need to unite. i think they will. and also get those unaffiliated and regular style democrats on board and we can win this for our state and help take back our country. >> madison cawthorn the youngest member of congress lost his primary in north carolina. steve, ainsley, brian? >> steve: lucas, going back to pennsylvania, where three of the four big races had been called. but it's that senate race that all eyes are on. so there is that lancaster county

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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

greatest miracles of my lifetime. >> alec hoff reported from pennsylvania bridge during cell kathy barnetterepublican senate candidates. miss barnette walk on fox news sunday. >> thank you so much for having me. >> a show to the polling as well as those who most interested in this race, you are starting at just the right time on a shoestring budget compared to the other two top contenders. but, former president trump has weighed in on this race a pretty a plenty of good things to say about you but also offers this big kathy barnette will never be able to in the general election against the radical left democrats. she has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted. here's what doctor oz said to me about that when i asked him thursday and special report. >> she has raised questions in her own candidacy she has refused to answer this is a candidate who lost by 20 points when she ran for congress 18 months ago. she's not going to do all the general election. spain i want to give a chance to answer these questions in your creek cluster with your military record you'

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

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 que

some reporting on kathy barnett and katie meyer talking about the senate primary. she's in pennsylvania. the article exclusive kathy barnett refuses to support gop nominee for senate if it is not her. kathy barnett in an interview monday morning refused to support the gop nominee for u.s. senate in pennsylvania if she does not win the nomination tuesday. breitbart -- she said she will not. she writes if you do not win tomorrow, do you intend to support the republican nominee whoever it is? in reply she said she will not support the republican nominee against the likely democrat nominee lieutenant governor john federman. it is worth noting federman is an about socialist. barnett refusing to support either dr. mama dawes or david mccormick if one of them wins instead of her essentially meaning she would be helping a socialist democrat when in the general election. minnesota, carol on the republican line, good morning. caller: good morning. i do not understand where they say inflation is only up 10%. when you go to the grocery store, it went from $.98 to three dollars

now let me be very clear now the surging candidacy of kathy barnett. i've interviewed kathy. i like kathy. she was very nice when i interviewed her . but the problem is we're now looking at what is must holdan republican senate seat if the republicans want to ever take the majority in the u.s. senate. she up to this point in this race has never been vetted because up until this week her polling frankly didn't reallyee warrant it. and this is very important. don't forget back in 2020 she was in a congressional race in pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. she lost that race, by appneral election race whopping 20 points. also today whent the washington examiner reached out to her campaign, she declined to respond to very simple, straightforward questions about her candidacy. theseetfors questions like whew she an adjunct professorct and when was she an adjunctro professor and when did she move from virginia to pennsylvania? and that's not all we did a lot of vetting ourselves. e while kathy claims to be a maga conservative, she has a very troubling history of attacking don

so, kathy barnette, isn't only surging in the polls.tually tied now with her main opponents, including dave mccormack and trump-endorsed tv star dr. mehmet oz. >> now that barnette is a top contender, she is facing more scrutiny than ever. jeff zeleny breaks down her campaign. >> reporter: for months, kathy barnette, campaigned across pennsylvania. gaining attention but an afterthought in the senate race. it played out in a two-man brawl. >> mehmet has flip-flopped on every issue. >> reporter: fueled by big money and big names of tv celebrity dr. mehmet oz and dave mccormack. less than a week ahead of the election, barnette's surge is sending shock waves across the gop, and provoked this dire warning from donald trump, who has endorsed oz. kathy barnette will never be able to win the election against the radical left. >> i would agree. >> reporter: in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country, which democrats believe offers the best chance to pick up a seat to hold the majority, a messy family feud, deep inside the mag

i want to hear what we're hearing from her rivals. >> what do we really know about kathy barnette? e supported the george floyd protest, and opposed trump saying, i was not a trumper. we can't trust trumpy par.net for senate. >> barnette is a mystery. she's -- no one really understands much about her. she's not answering questions about her record. and what i do know concerns me. >> i think it's fascinating to see these last-second oppo dumps here. what will you be watching for in the last seconds of this campaign? >> we should note that some of these comments they're playing are out of context, and that's because no one has researched her to any extent. the campaigns are on the fly, doing the kind of research that would normally be unschooled over months and months of a campaign. they're doing basic research on her background, where she's lived, where she went to school, things like that. i think we're waiting to see, can her momentum take her over the top? can she really beat these two folks who have spent between them and their allies well over $50 million. and she's really worki

oz or does kathy barnette who campaigns saying she's the true trumpy.votes, watch philadelphia and the suburbs and watch this swathe of rural counties, see if one candidate can break out. >> and we, of course, will be checking in with you throughout the night. very important night. there's also attention on other states, john, including north carolina where the fate of the embattled congressman cawthorn hangs in the balance. what can you tell us? >> pull up north carolina. madison cawthorn involved in scandal after scandal, controversy after controversy since taking office. twice stopped carrying a gun to an airport, angered republican leadership as you recall by saying he had been invited by members of leadership to orgies where cocaine was used. he since backed away. this is his district, 11th congressional district in southwestern corridor. a republican district. if madison cawthorn wins the primary, he is likely to go on and win re-election. this is a battle where trump came in, said give cawthorn another chance. the house republican leader says rep

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

we can't trust kathy barnett. >> kathy's going to be a lot of trouble. lot of trouble. she's totally, totally an unknown and we can't have that. >> down to the wire for the pennsylvania republican primaries, and that happens -- actually democratic primaries too but let's talk about the republican primary with our panel. we have david urban here, mr. pennsylvania. i should say you are supporting david mccormick. >> the winner in the race. >> okay, in the primary for the senate. but how worried are you about kathy barnette? >> i think everybody's kind of concerned a bit, as the tease let in, she's just unvetted, unknown. there are more questions about her resume then there are answers. as you know, that is fodder for the democrats in the fall. she's already run for congress once and got drubbed. and the concern is she will run again and get drubbed in the fall this year. >> let's pull back to widen the aperture as they say and look at what this means to further the republican party. this is just going to be the latest in a real tug of war over whether or n