The scramble before Tuesday’s primary election was especially intense, and potentially decisive, in the Republican Senate race, where three candidates are running neck-and-neck.
. Mastriano, though, has looked like the likely winner for months, so the last-minute support is more likely to pad the successful endorsement record Trump likes to tout, rather than have any major impact.He and McCormick, whose campaigns and political allies have spent more than $50 million, much of it blanketing Pennsylvania with ads, are at risk of being overtaken by Barnette, who rallied in Bucks County with Mastriano.
“These jokers are going to go down,” she said. While some Republicans have worried that she hasn’t been deeply vetted, after rising late in the race, she later added: “I have been running for 13 months. But these people are acting like I just crawled out from under a rock.” Several national media outlets were with Oz, tracking the primary in a race whose general election outcome could decide control of the Senate.Asked why he couldn’t pull away, despite his personal fame, his campaign’s significant spending, and Trump’s backing, Oz said: “35 million reasons.”Several who came to see him said they weren’t discouraged by the ads attacking Oz over past statements he’s made on issues like abortion, guns, and fracking.
“We want something uplifting, hopeful, powerful,” O’Brien, a onetime Democrat turned Republican, said in an interview after a lengthy conversation with McCormick. “I think it’s much more important that I be talking about why I think I’m the best choice, as opposed to why they’re not the best choices,” he said in an interview.The GOP field also includes Jeff Bartos, a Montgomery County real estate developer; Carla Sands, the former ambassador to Denmark; and Philadelphia attorney George Bochetto.
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