Posted on 05/20/2022 8:39:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When we last left the saga of the GOP Senate Primary in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania Tuesday, there was a hint that late-arriving mail-in ballots would be the deciding factor, and those would for sure be all counted up on Friday. We would have one, definitive Republican nominee in the fall midterms to back against the current Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D-PA).
Sad to say, folks, it’s now Friday evening and it’s not over yet, according to AP.
Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick prepared for a recount as vote counting entered a fourth day in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat.
A recount could push the final outcome of the race until June 8. https://t.co/wKno2cp1R9
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2022
Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount to decide the winner of the contest between heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
A recount would mean that the outcome of the race might not be known until June 8, the deadline for counties to report their results to the state.
Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led McCormick by 1,079 votes, or 0.08 percentage points, out of 1,340,248 ballots counted as of 5 p.m. Friday. The race is close enough to trigger Pennsylvania’s automatic recount law, with the separation between the candidates inside the law’s 0.5% margin. The Associated Press will not declare a winner in the race until the likely recount is complete.
But Politico was ready to call it a done deal Thursday.
“The chances of a recount are 100 percent and no less,” said Josh Novotney, a Pennsylvania-based GOP consultant. “There’s still votes coming in. It will probably get even tighter than it is now, which is almost humanly impossible. Each side will definitely be wanting any slight edge they can get going into a recount.”
They also noted the whispers of a recount meant both campaigns had already started calling in reinforcements of additional legal help or people to act as election observers — or both:
Both Oz and McCormick have enlisted alumni from former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign to gird themselves for a potential recount. Mike Roman, the director of Trump’s Election Day operations, is helping the McCormick team, according to a source familiar with his efforts. The Oz campaign has brought onboard James Fitzpatrick, who led Pennsylvania’s Election Day operations for Trump.
Wally Zimolong, a Pennsylvania-based attorney, is also working for McCormick. He tweeted Wednesday that he was headed on behalf of the McCormick campaign to Lancaster County, where a number of ballots couldn’t be scanned because of a printing error, “to ensure the integrity of the counting of the mail-in ballots.”
I also found this tidbit intriguing: Chuck Cooper will be leading McCormick’s stable of legal beagles for any potential recount. “Cooper won Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-Fla.) 2018 recount effort.” Earlier this week, he also represent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in a campaign finance case before the Supreme Court, as my colleague Spencer Brown at sister publication Townhall reported. Cooper won that case.
As they say, stay tuned.
This utter BS with our elections must end, we are headed straight towards being Venezuela’! We now have ALL mail in ballots in 4 states those states have been under Dem one party rule since!! I don’t know what the solution is but this BS has to stop!! WHY in the hell can’t we have ELECTION DAY, make it a holiday with plenty of polling stations!!
Hannity must be in a straitjacket by now.
He’ll have to wait at least another month to woefully find out that his boy Mehmet has lost the race.
Is it BS or a really close election?
Tell it!!
You’re rooting for Rove’s/DC cabal’s boy?
Funny how mail-in ballots seems to correlate with establishment/democrats winning key races. Very “funny” indeed. Gee, if the GOP had anyone with backbone maybe they’d look into that.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Regarding possibly compromised Senate races, there’s nothing stopping the states from repealing the ill-conceived 17th Amendment yesterday.
In fact, I challenge the states to ram an amendment that does nothing more than repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th Amendments through the process faster than corrupt, alleged election-stealing Congress rammed the 2020 electoral vote count on J6. Arguably little or no discussion would be required for such an amendment.
Insights welcome.
Not at all.
I wouldn’t vote for Oz or McC.
I supported Kathy Barnette because of her strong anti-abortion stance.
What Hannity did in his shameless promotion of Oz, and piling on Kathy night after night on his show, was truly unforgivable. And he refused to give her a chance to respond.
Too bad the Fairness Doctrine is a thing of the past.
It is not about whether or not it is a close election it is about counting going on for days and days, that we are voting for days and days, it has become a huge joke and has caused the entire country to be doubtful that our elections can be trusted!! WHY is it that the 4 states with ALL mail in ballots are under Dem ONE PARTY RULE and have been since ALL MAIL IN BALLOTS started!!
In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, believers now bind the strongman over the elections and all electoral fraud, exposing any and all fraud and false weight elections to the light, and loosing the spirit of truth to this process that fraud may not be able to take hold. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Still having a hissy because the lady who had no effective responses to past transgression ain’t the choice?
Rooting for the sure-RINO over Oz?
Oz is strong against abortion too - they tried to lie and misrepresent. Barnette had no 100% denials of a lot of that which they used against her - mainly because her own words were there for all to see. “I don’t think that’s me” and “Well, that looks like an incomplete thought which suggests there might be more to follow” ain’t denials - she was anti-Trump until she needed to convince folks she was someone she isn’t..
Mail-in ballots are not new. It seems to be a very close election. Sometimes elections are decided by a single vote. It’s a big state. Looks messy but not discouraging.
Drawn out battle between two turds….
I don’t believe the requisite number of states will accept your challenge.
I don’t believe the requisite number of states will accept your challenge.
I think many people consider Oz a sure RINO as well.
Mail-in ballots are not new.
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So true !
The first time it was used to rig an election by the anti american pukes was 1864 to try to defeat Lincoln.
And the left has used it repeatedly since for the same purpose.
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