Oz, McCormick Deadlocked In Key GOP Senate Primary

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

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Dave McCormick and Trump-endorsed Memhet Oz are deadlocked in a too-close-to-call Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, as mail-in ballots are being counted in race that could impact the balance of power in Washington. Jonathan Wackrow is a corporate security consultant. He joins CNN Tonight to discuss the “around-the-clock security” U.S. Marshals are to provide at the homes of Supreme Court justices ahead of their upcoming abortion ruling.Plus, Professor Michael Eric Dyson joins to discuss how to combat racist extremism in the wake of the Buffalo shootings, an ex-officer pleads guilty to the manslaughter of George Floyd, the House agrees $28 million in funding to address the national baby formula shortage, and a key lawmaker says UFO’s pose a “potential national security threat” as Congress holds its first UFO hearing in half a century.Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.
0:04.2	The great cliffhanger in Pennsylvania remains well just that this evening, suspenseful.
0:09.2	In fact, more than 24 hours after polls close in a primary race that's key to which party
0:14.7	holds control of the Senate next year, the biggest primary night of the year has now
0:19.2	threatened tonight, too, with the two GOP Senate candidates in Pennsylvania deadlocked in
0:24.8	a two-close-to-call contest.
0:27.7	This week or has come down to candidates Dave McCormick and Trump endorsed Mehmet Oz.
0:33.0	Thousands of mail in ballots are still being counted and even after they are counted,
0:37.5	this dead heat race is like he heading to an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law because
0:42.8	of the slim margin.
0:44.3	So both Oz and McCormick have already acknowledged that this still isn't over.
0:48.4	In fact, there's a process.
0:51.9	We have tens of thousands of mail-in ballots that have not been counted.
0:57.3	We're not going to have a result tonight.
0:59.5	When all the votes are tallied, I am confident we will win.
1:05.3	The process remains.
1:07.3	But here comes Donald Trump today on his social media site ripping a page right out of his
1:11.1	own playbook that his endorsed candidate Oz just go ahead and declare victory.
1:16.6	Why?
1:17.6	He says so it's, quote, harder for them to cheat.
1:21.6	Unquote.
1:22.6	More baseless conspiracies based on this notion of mail-in ballots.
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