Pennsylvania Senate race

Pennsylvania has an open Senate seat for the first time in 12 years. Fetterman's Republican opponent was not yet decided. The GOP primary was close going ...

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Five states hold primaries Tuesday, with Senate races in Pennsylvania and North Carolina getting top billing.

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Pennsylvania will have to wait a little longer to find out who the GOP's Senate nominee will be this fall. Candidates Mehmet Oz and David McCormick todayare ...

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Republicans Dave McCormick and Mehmet Oz remained locked in a battle for the GOP Senate nomination in Pennsylvania into the early hours of Wednesday morning ...

His rise in the polls coincided with Trump’s rally in the state in early April, and has continued to grow since. A wild card in the race is Betsy Johnson, a former conservative Democratic state senator who is running as an independent candidate in the fall. But despite the spending advantage in his favor, Flynn conceded the nomination to state Rep. Andrea Salinas. And in the most expensive House race of the year, the candidate backed by big money lost the Democratic nomination. In Oregon, former state House Speaker Tina Kotek grabbed the Democratic nomination to succeed Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, who is term-limited. And he placed a target on his back because the left believes he and several other moderate House Democrats united to tank Biden’s massive social spending plan. A last-ditch effort to try to consolidate opposition to him materialized last week, but it quickly fizzled after none of the leading candidates dropped out — and Trump endorsed Mastriano over the weekend. Trump’s gamble on endorsing Oz despite trailing McCormick in most polls at the time shows Trump’s belief in the power of the celebrity candidate — even one who is relatively polarizing, with nearly evenly split favorable and unfavorable ratings. He led all of the recent polls in the splintered field that also includes former Rep. Lou Barletta, former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain and businessman Dave White, among others. The Senate contest has become one of the highest-profile races of 2022, with former President Donald Trump weighing in for Oz. A series of expensive proxy battles broke out over the last month between outside groups aligned with progressive Democrats and more moderate candidates in safely Democratic House seats. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), the outspoken and scandal-plagued freshman, lost his bid for a second term to state Sen. Chuck Edwards in a Republican primary after repeated scandals.

(WHTM) – John Fetterman, the 6'9″ progressive Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, has won the Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, ...

Dr. Oz and McCormick were within 0.5% of each other, the figure that would trigger an automatic recount. Conservative commentator Kathy Barnette was third. Oz ...

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